One after the other, critics of the regime of Ben Ali forced into exile, returning home. Tuesday, January 18, it was the turn of Marzouki, historical opponent to the regime of deposed president, to return to Tunis, Tunisian official news agency TAP. "The opponent Marzouki, the Congress party president for the Republic (CPR) prohibits returned Tuesday in Tunisia after years of exile" in Paris, reported the agency.He was greeted at the airport Tunis-Carthage by a "significant number" of party activists who chanted the national anthem and slogans against the current political situation, they added the same source. Marzouki urged Saudi Arabia to deliver the former president Ben Ali, who fled his country Friday to bring him to justice, according to TAP.
Marzouki, from the secular left and who was in exile in France, announced Monday his candidacy for the presidential election, which must be held within six months in Tunisia. Former President of the Tunisian League for Human Rights until 1994, and co-founder of the Council for Liberties in Tunisia (unacknowledged), Mr.
Marzouki had created the Congress for the Republic in 2001. He was sentenced to one year in prison in 2000.
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