Algeria is a country with many troubles. 30% of young people have no work. Corruption is rife and democracy sat on the sidelines.
But the more than 41 million algerians do not have any case, see a forthcoming presidential elections turned into a miserable farce.
As had been the case on the now 82-year-old incumbent, president Abdelaziz Bouteflika of algeria been the lawful order of a new term. A long time, it looked like the hard sjukdomsmärkte the president would turn a deaf ear to the massive protests that have been going on for over a month around in Algeria.
the Ever-growing crowds sang out against Bouteflikas ambitions to continue in his post despite his obvious unsuitability, the weight of years and disease, he is.
But on Monday night came Bouteflikas decision to withdraw from the presidential elections and postpone the elections in the future.
the Question is what happens now. Algeria has two examples in its neighborhood, where popular protests led many years’s presidents to resign.
the Example of Tunisia, where Zine Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011, fled to saudi Arabia, it is more hopeful scenario. Tunisia has major economic and structural problems, but has embarked on a democratic path and avoided the more extensive civil disturbance.
the Example of Egypt, where Hosni Mubarak left the presidency in February 2011, is more precariously. Where has the military power was strengthened at the same time as democratic rights and liberties disappeared. Member IS has a foothold in the country and the economy limping along.
on the streets of the capital Algiers. But the joy over to president Bouteflika listened to the people’s protests can’t hide the fact that the future is uncertain. The questions are many: what is the role of military thought in Algeria after Bouteflika? Can the opposition, who had gone into the strypkoppel the last few years, dealing with the power vacuum that the president is leaving after twenty years in power? Airing the militant islamism air, the movement 25 years ago, Algeria held hostage in a inbördeskrigsliknande state?
The national dialogue Abdelaziz Bouteflika called on to can hopefully give a first indication of which way Algeria will embark on – in Tunisia or Egypt.
