BBC News with Marion Marshall

The Prime Minister of Tunisia, Mohamed Ghannouchi, has named the ministers in the interim government intended to fill the vacuum left by the overthrow of President Ben Ali. Six ministers stay on in their posts, despite street protests in the capital against the retention of members of the former regime. Three opposition politicians are given cabinet seats. The new government was swiftly rejected by a spokesman for the Tunisian Labour party, Hammal Hammam, who told the BBC's Arabic service it was too similar to the old one.