ike the party's values, I trust the UPL." After the crowd is warmed up, the UPL's leaders arrive in a fleet of black luxury cars. My interview with Slim Riahi takes place several hours later outside a gas station on the outskirts of town, in the front seat of his Porsche Cayenne. An entourage of Riahi's a

ged and the party allied itself with certain members of the old regime. "Everything changed. We realised that Imed Belkacim wasn't the real leader, Slim Riahi was,' one man inside the party says. "The dream of a revolutionary party disappeared." 'Neo-RCD' It emerged that Riahi had been a friend of Imed T