Part of central Tunisia, a march for a new government

Hundreds of residents of west-central Tunisia, which is part of the Tunisian revolution that led to the leak of former dictator Zine El-Ali AbidineBen, began Saturday, January 22 march on Tunis to demand the departure Government of the caciques of the old regime. They were about 300 flights Saturday morning Menzel Bouzaiane, 280 km south of the capital, but other demonstrators joined the band on the road and into the evening approached the town of Regueb.

The correspondent of the, there were about 800 in the evening. A trade unionist who takes part in the march, Mohamed Fadhel, suggested a figure of 2500. Calls run on social networks to other regions other demonstrators joined the march which has arrived in Tunis "in four or five days," says Fadhel.

Walkers of the "Caravan of liberation," the name as its founders had given him, had to sleep Regueb, where about 2500 people were waiting, some with the intent to leave with them Sunday. Sunday, participants in the march, however, that spontaneous joined trade unionists and human rights, will resume the road to Kairouan (about 150 km south of Tunis), according to Mr.

Fadhel. "This march is voluntary and was decided by young people, but our role is to regulate trade unionists," said Rabia Slimane, a teacher and union member of 40 years. "The purpose of this caravan is to bring down the government, including ministers from the RCD", the Constitutional Democratic Rally, a former ruling party of the time of Ben Ali.

"It will take too long to walk to Tunis, so we will borrow the means of transport and stop in every city on our way to make a symbolic march of a few kilometers before leaving with the people from our ranks," he explained the teacher. Other steps are similar from Kasserine, another outbreak of the uprising a month which precipitated January 14 the fall of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, and the mining town of Gafsa.

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