About a Million people demonstrated in the sixth Friday in a row against the Algerian President Bouteflika. They are calling for his resignation and a new political System.
The mass protests against Algeria age weak President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and the country’s leadership continue. Also this Friday, people in the capital Algiers and other places on the streets again. They called in chants of the resignation of the heads of state and leading Elite and a new political System. It was the sixth Friday in a row of the protest.
The demonstrations had begun at the end of February and first against the candidacy of the 82-year-old Bouteflika in the presidential election addressed. The people protested but, as the President renounced his candidacy and reforms promised. He shifted at the same time, the election and extended his term in office an indefinite period of time. Actually, this ends on the 28. April.
About a Million people have protested against the Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and the political System.
people want a new political System
Meanwhile, Algeria is political Elite by the head of state. Chief of staff Ahmed Gaid Salah urged on Tuesday the constitutional court and the Parliament to activate article 102 of the Constitution. Thus, the President can be explained due to health reasons for amtsunfähig and de facto deposed.
The Opposition sees in the advance of the army of a coup attempt. Also, many of the demonstrators refused to do a deposition by the President on article 102. They fear that the men kept behind the head of state to further their influence.
The people want not only the withdrawal of Bouteflika, but also that the General chief of staff Ahmed Gaid Salah.
Some of the protesters held up banners, on which they demanded the resignation of chief of staff Salah. Other scourged the political Elite of the country as “Ali Baba and the 40 thieves” and opposed international interference in the crisis.
Bouteflika is since 20 years in Power, but since a stroke in 2013, in a wheelchair and can barely speak. In Public, he will no longer occur almost. The resentment of the Demonstrators is aimed, in the meantime, but also against the network of high military officials, politicians and business representatives who rule the country. Above all, the army plays a Central role.
