Habib Bourguiba

Bourguiba also promoted women's rights. Bourguiba died on April 6 2000 at the age of 96. From that moment Bourguiba set out to crisscross the country to try to enroll the majority of Tunisians from the countryside; and thus create a more popular base for his newly formed party so that he managed in a couple of years to set up more than 400 branches (cells) of the Neo Destour.