Tunisian prime minister to resign TUNISIAN Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali has announced his resignation after failing to win the support of his party for an interim government of technocrats. Jebali said he was keeping a promise he made to resign if he failed to push through a non-partisan cabinet. I promised to present my resignation in the event my initiative failed. It's what I did during my meeting with the president," he told reporters on Tuesday after a meeting with President Moncef Marzouki. Jebali is the moderate face of the ruling Islamist party Ennahda. He had been prime minister since December 2011.