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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/tunisian-pm-in-cabinet-concessions.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Tunisian prime minister Mohamed Ghannouchi has appointed independents to three key posts in the country's new interim Cabinet (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-tunisian-pm-in-cabinet-concessions.jpg" alt="Tunisian prime minister Mohamed Ghannouchi has appointed independents to three key posts in the country's new interim Cabinet (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Tunisia&#8217;s prime minister has appointed independents to three key posts in the country&#8217;s new interim Cabinet, removing ministers from the former ruling party in a major concession to demonstrators.</p>
<p>But prime minister Mohamed Ghannouchi, himself a member of the former regime of ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, is staying on in the new Cabinet, despite demonstrators&#8217; calls for his ousting.</p>
<p>It was not immediately clear if naming independent ministers to the interior, foreign and defence Cabinet posts would succeed in quelling Tunisia&#8217;s daily street protests demanding the removal of all ministers with ties to the country&#8217;s former regime.</p>
<p>Mr Ben Ali, who had ruled Tunisia for 23 years, was driven from power by the anti-government protesters on January 14 and fled to Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>The new interim Cabinet, Tunisia&#8217;s second in 10 days, is a caretaker government intended to prepare for elections in six to seven months.</p>
<p>Mr Ghannouchi said the elections will be organised by an independent national commission and overseen by international observers to ensure the vote is &#8220;honest and transparent.&#8221; He did not offer a date for the ballot.</p>
<p>The new Cabinet includes 12 new ministers and nine holdovers from the prior interim government that had been named on January 17, in addition to Mr Ghannouchi.</p>
<p>The newcomers include interior minister Farhat Rajhi, defence minister Abdelkrim Zbidi, and foreign affairs minister Ahmed Ounaies.</p>
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