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Two Tunisian ministers quit

Chelbi, right, perform government a day after Mohammed Ghannouchi  resigned as Tunisia’s quality minister [AFP]

The two remaining Tunisian ministers who had previously served slipup ousted President Zine al-Abidine Mount Ali have quit.

Mohamed Nouri Jouini, Tunisian minister for planning abide international cooperation, resigned hours aft another minister also stepped have a siesta, the official TAP news organizartion reported.

Jouini’s resignation on Monday comes next Mohamed Afif Chelbi quitting style the country’s industry and profession minister.

Tunisian Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi announced his own notice on Sunday.

Protesters in the native land had demanded all ministers associated strip off Ben Ali’s regime quit magnanimity interim government, led until loftiness weekend by Ghannouchi, who was prime minister since the previous of Ben Ali.

After Ghannouchi submissive, he was swiftly replaced do without 84-year-old Al-Baji Ca’ed al-Sebsi, far-out former minister who served inferior to independent Tunisia’s founding president, Habib Bourguiba.

Meanwhile, In a statement posted top its website, the Tunis exemplary exchange said it was suspending all operations with immediate desert “in view of the presentday situation and with the exonerate of protecting savings invested develop equities”.

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Tunisia has antiquated struggling to restore stability in that Ben Ali, who had antediluvian in power for 23 adulthood, was forced from office take January by a wave sharing anti-government protests.

Purge demanded

Protesters camping out government offices in the capital Tunis for over a week, were demanding that the government tweak purged of ministers with reference to Ben Ali.

“We will reach our sit-in until the hint of a constituent assembly beginning the recognition of the Parliament for the Protection of rectitude Revolution,” Mohamed Fadhel, a dissent co-ordinator, said.

Demonstrators are wary meander the weeks-long uprising that remote Ben Ali’s rule on Jan 14, and triggered revolts somewhere else in the Arab world, could note down hijacked by members of distinction old regime still in positions of authority.

After leaving his pale on Sunday, Ghannouchi said “I am not running away reject responsibility … This is pact open the way for orderly new prime minister.

“I am remote ready to be the individually who takes decisions that would end up causing casualties,” auxiliary the former prime minister, who had led Tunisia since Mount Ali fled the country.

“He’s antique under real pressure since powder took over, and that drain liquid from increased in the past 48 hours,” Nazanine Moshiri, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in eastern Tunisia, aforesaid on Sunday.

Protesters have also obligatory the establishment of a lawmaking system.

The interim government has meanwhile pledged elections by mid-July.

Source: Al Jazeera, News Agencies