Thousands of Algerians want to prevent the seriously ill President inaugural again. In April, Bouteflika wants to be for his fifth term in office re-elected. His critics no longer accuse him to be able to lead the country, and to ignore the problems of its inhabitants. the
thousands of people have protested in Algeria against a further term of office of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The police used several Places in the capital, Algiers used tear gas to disperse the demonstrators. Several people were reportedly injured. The police had deployed a large contingent in the area around the presidential Palace and the Parliament in Algiers.
after a stroke in 2013 the health of hard-to-ailing Bouteflika to run in the presidential election on 18. April for a fifth term. Many doubt that the President, on Saturday, 82 years old, is still able to the office to fill in. He has since the stroke, trouble Speaking and can move only in a wheelchair. In the past few years, he was hardly open to the public. Many Algerians blame your leadership, to ignore Bouteflika pressing problems such as unemployment, corruption and poverty.
One of the few photos of Abdelaziz Bouteflika in the past years (2017).
(photo: AP)
Such demonstrations in Algeria is rather unusual, but in the past few days, there had been a number of rallies. On Thursday, among other things, the journalists had demonstrated, because of their media houses had been prohibited to report on the protests. The demonstrations on Friday, the share in addition to Algiers in the other country, were organized through social networks on the Internet. The organizers have voted for no candidate Bouteflika. Opposition candidate Ali Benflis expressed but on Friday his support for the protesters and described Bouteflika as a “disgrace for the Algerian people”.
It was Bouteflika for a long time as a guarantor of stability in Algeria. Supported by the military in 1999, he won the election. The military saw in him the suitable Person in the country after the devastating civil war of the 1990s. Algeria’s “black decade” has required according to estimates, between 60 000 and 200 000 deaths.