He is expected to continue as a major force in the regime.

"Let's make the best of it and figure out a way to have a voice in the new regime."

"There has been a change in the political regime," he said.

As a result they had heard nothing of subsequent changes in political regimes.

"I think maybe some in the regime want to return to those days; they are not comfortable that people speak out," he said.

This must be considered as a "point of weakness in the regime."

Youth organizations have always played an important role in political regimes.

Numbers of important members were implicated in the old regime.

"I'm frightened to think there might be a change in the regime."

From the mid-1960s, however, fractures began to appear in the regime.