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State media: Tunisian ministers quit ousted president's party

Tunis, Tunisia

All ministers of Tunisia, a new national unity government has stopped the ousted president's party, the state media Thursday in the midst of protests to empower members of the old regime.

The former ruling party and the opposition formed a coalition government to replace the ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

All ministers with ties to the Democratic Constitutional Rally Republic of Ben Ali in the new government have left the party, the television in Tunisia.

The protesters demanded that members of the previous administration - which is called "remnants" - being swept from the new unity government.

About 500 protesters headed towards the headquarters of the Democratic Rally Constitution on Thursday. The army fired into the air to keep protesters at bay, but there was no violence.

Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia last week, when the Court of the North African country for 23 years. His ouster followed weeks of protests over what is said Tunisia had poor living conditions, high unemployment, government corruption and oppression.

Acting President of Tunisia said Wednesday it plans to reduce "no link with the past," referring to the years of unpopular rule by the former regime.

Analysts said the resignation of the party of deposed leader is a gesture to appease the angry protesters and to keep the unity government afloat.

Earlier this week, two senior officials of the new unity government to resign from the party of former state TV.

Acting President and Prime Minister Fouad Mohammed Ghannouchi Mebazaâ submitted his resignation to the party of deposed president.

Managers resigned Tuesday after street protests in the capital Tunis, which urged the new government is a farce and demanded that officials with ties to the old guard of fire.

Disorders in the past several weeks, began in December, when Mohamed Bouaziz, Närpiö unemployed fire began when the police seized a wagon of fruit, which was his source of income. It 'died earlier this month.

More than 100 people were killed in the ensuing protests over the past five weeks, according to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Wednesday. massacres of the movement are the victims of fire, suicide and live in prison riots weekend.

The demonstrators denounced the wealth and corruption of Ben Ali and his family.

The Swiss authorities have put a freeze on assets belonging to Ben Ali and his "entourage", according to the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Swiss authorities say their goal is "to prevent misuse of funds' assets of the Tunisian government.

The demonstration has caused unrest in the region, including in neighboring Algeria, where crowds took to the streets last week to protest against food prices. State media reported at least three people died in the clashes.

And Egypt, many people were burned in public this week - the same kind of protest that triggered protests in Tunisia in December.

The uprising was a revolt of Tunisia's most successful in the region since the fall of 1979, the Shah in Iran, said Juan Cole, a Middle East historian at the University of Michigan.

It is' the most secular country in the Arab world, "said Cole.