Brazil tourism minister to resign

Brazilian Minister of Tourism Henrique Eduardo Alves talks on his mobile phone after a meeting with Brazil's Vice President Michel Temer (not pictured) in Brasilia, Brazil, in this file photo dated December 14, 2015. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Tourism Minister Henrique Eduardo Alves said on Monday he turned in a resignation letter, becoming the first minister from the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) to leave President Dilma Rousseff's government. Brazil's largest political party is expected to abandon its alliance with Rousseff's Workers' Party on Tuesday. (Reporting by Maria Carolina Marcello; Editing by Bernard Orr)