(NewsCore) - BEIRUT, Lebanon - hundreds of people marched on Sunday in Beirut to demand the end based on the religion of Lebanon governance, mobilized by an appeal published on Facebook.

"The revolution is everywhere..." Lebanon, is your turn, song protesters, most of them young people, in reference to popular uprisings started Purring regimes in the Arab world in January.

Lebanon government system has its roots in a 1943 power-sharing agreement in religious lines was adopted after the country gained its independence from France. Aimed at maintaining a balance between 18 religious groups, requests that the President be a Maronite Christian, the first Minister a Sunni Muslim and the President of the Parliament a Shi'a Muslim.

Other government jobs are assigned in accordance with their religious affiliation.

The provision of power-sharing was blamed for most of the country's problems in decades - including corruption, cronyism and, above all, the devastating civil war from 1975 to 1990 and its subsequent crisis.

Echoing the protesters who braved torrential rains March on the main courthouse, chanted, "people want to overthrow the regime-" the battle cry that toppled leaders veterans at Tunisia and Egypt.

More than 2,600 Facebook users signed up to participate in the rally, but wet weather had apparently dissuaded a significant portion of them.

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