Morocco’s King Mohammed VI has named Saaddine El Otmani as the new prime minister, after his predecessor was fired this week for failing to form a coalition government five months after parliamentary elections, said a report.

The king has tasked El Otmani, a member of the same Islamist PJD party as the ousted Abdelilah Benkirane, with forming a new government, reported Bloomberg citing a palace statement carried by the state-run news agency MAP on Friday.

El Otmani was Morocco’s foreign affairs minister in 2011 when the party came to power, it added.