Tunis: Three ministers belonging to Tunisia's main trade union resigned from the new government on Tuesday, after the union refused to recognise the country's new leadership, one of the three told AFP.
"We are resigning from the government after a call from our union," said Houssine Dimassi, who had been named minister for training and employment in a transitional unity government unveiled only on Monday.
Dimassi said the two other ministers resigning were Abdeljelil Bedoui, who was named as a minister working in the prime minister's office, and Anouar Ben Gueddour, a junior transport minister.
The resignations were also announced on the official TAP news agency. The three are members of the UGTT union, which held an extraordinary meeting near Tunis earlier on Tuesday at which it decided not to recognise the new government.
