President Mustafa Akıncı has given the mandate to form a new government to the leader of the National Unity Party (UBP) Ersin Tatar.
Akıncı who invited Tatar to the presidential palace at noon assigned him the task of forming the new government.
The UBP has currently the greatest number of seats in the TRNC assembly.
According to a statement released by the UBP headquarters, a joint meeting of the party’s assembly group and central executive committee will start at 4pm to be followed by a party assembly meeting at 5pm.
BRTK