The new president of the Tunisian Assembly Mohamed Ennaceur (R-podium) gives his first speech during a plenary session on December 4, 2014 in Tunis. Ennaceur, 80, of anti-Islamist party Nidaa Tounes, served as social affairs minister under Habib Bourguiba, Tunisia’s “father of independence”, during the 1970s and 1980s. AFP PHOTO / FETHI BELAID