Egypt’s caretaker prime minister on Wednesday named a new cabinet which will be charged with tackling worsening crime and a sliding economy.

AFP reported that interim Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri announced his administration, following nearly two weeks of delays, reportedly caused by problems in finding a suitable candidate to fill the interior ministry post.

The chosen candidate for that post is Mohammed Ibrahim Yusuf, who headed police in the district of Giza in Cairo.

Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr was retained from the former cabinet which resigned in November in the face of escalating protests, and Mumtaz Said was named finance minister, AFP said.

Also on Wednesday, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) announced it had granted Ganzouri “presidential powers,” giving him greater control to run the country but no oversight of the armed forces or judiciary.

The appointment of the new caretaker cabinet comes just days after the conclusion of the first round of elections in the country, in which Islamist parties achieved a crushing victory.

The Muslim Brotherhood said its Freedom and Justice Party had won 36 out of 54 individual seats up for grabs in the first phase of the multi-stage parliamentary polls. The party’s landslide victory in the individual seats sets it up to become the leading power in the 498-seat new lower parliament, AFP reported.

The ultraconservative Islamist Nour Party has come in second. The Nour Party advocates for a strict interpretation of Muslim Sharia law, where the sexes are segregated and women must be veiled and are barred from driving.

Only one third of districts have voted so far, and the remainder will head to the polls on December 14 and in January.

Earlier this week, the Muslim Brotherhood tried to reassure Egyptians that it was a moderate party and that it does not share Nour’s hard-line aspirations to strictly enforce Islamic codes.

The deputy head of the Brotherhood’s new political party, Essam el-Erian, told AP the group is “a moderate and fair party” which seeks “to apply the basics of Sharia law in a fair way that respects human rights and personal rights.”