(NewsCore) - Tunisia - Tunisian Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi announced his resignation on Sunday, as security forces clashed with demonstrators calling for the Elimination of some Government Ministers interim.

"I have decided to quit as Prime Minister," Ghannouchi told a Conference of State television news saying he thought carefully before making the decision, which was supported by his family. "No I'm running out of responsibility." This is to open the way for a new Prime Minister. "I am not prepared to be the person who makes decisions that were causing casualties".

As a member of the Government of ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was a particular objective of discontent of the protesters. The largest of several demonstrations against the Transitional Authority, about 100,000 demonstrators marched through main avenue capital of the Friday shouting slogans, including some against Ghannouchi.

"This resignation will serve Tunisia and revolution and the future of Tunisia", he added.

Amidst the Friday riots, the interim Government said it would be held elections in July, but it did little to curb the wrath of the protesters.

The previous Sunday, security forces and anti-government protesters clashed in the capital of Tunisia, with the police firing tear gas and warning shots in young stones for a third day of violence.

Security forces have taken steps to stop the demonstrators, who were chanting anti-Government slogans, you arrive at the Ministry of the interior. Rampaging youth threw rocks in buildings to break Windows and it threw up barricades to prevent police who could not disperse them with tear gas and warning shots.

Three people were killed and about a dozen injured on Saturday when a protest against the Tunisia Government turned violent as riot police and masked police dressed in civilian fired warning shots and tear-gas hundreds of demonstrators. More than 100 people were arrested after riots on Saturday, after 88 arrests after the Friday demonstration.

Ben Ali regime was expelled on January 14, following widespread protests.

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