For the past year a caretaker cabinet has kept things ticking over, he says, but it has been unable to make inroads on pressing problems such as the swelling deficit.

BBC: Petr Necas in Prague, 28 June 2010

Mr Ashraf also promised that the forthcoming elections would be free and fair, and said he hoped the parties would reach consensus "amicably" on which of the rival candidates should head the caretaker cabinet.

BBC: Pakistan's Ashraf government makes history

For the moment the cabinet is a caretaker government and they are going to actually convene today for a few days until a new government is formed.

BBC: Transcript of Hatem Seif el Nasr interview

The party's top officials are still trying to decide whether to accept their prime minister's decision Wednesday to sack his Cabinet and install a caretaker government until new elections are held.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Late Wednesday, Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, head of the moderate religious party Ennahda, sacked his Cabinet and called for new elections, leaving himself at the head of a caretaker government.

CNN: Tunisia gripped by political uncertainty after killing