Tunisia's junior minister for transportation has said that he and two other ministers with ties to a top labour union have resigned from the newly formed government.
Anouar Ben Gueddour said on Tuesday that he has resigned along with Houssine Dimassi, the labour minister, and Abdeljelil Bedoui, a minister without portfolio. They are all members of a general national labour union.
Their walkout comes a day after Mohamed Ghannouchi, the Tunisian prime minister, announced a new 'unity government'.
The announcement was met with anger by some Tunisians, who said too many members of ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's party remain in power.
Ghannouchi was one of eight ministers staying on from the previous government of Ben Ali, who resigned and fled on Friday in the Arab world's first such popular revolt.
Ghannouchi said that the ministers remaining, including the defence and interior ministers, had acted "to preserve the national interest."
"They kept their posts because we need them at this time," Ghannouchi said on French radio. "All of them have clean hands."
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