Tunisian activist, Moncef Marzouki, named president

Mr Marzouki comes from the secular centre-left Congress for the Republic party, which came second in recent elections. He spent two decades in exile in Paris before returning to Tunisia in January days after the toppling of former president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.

His party had previously been banned. Marzouki, 66, was chosen by 153 out of 217 members of the Constituent Assembly. The body was elected in October to draw up a new constitution and appoint a transitional government.