In Algeria, shortly before the expiry of the deadline for the candidatures for the presidential election on Sunday went again to numerous young people against the leadership of the country on the road.
In the capital Algiers, hundreds of students gathered in the center to a Demonstration of how the journalists of the news Agency, reported AFP. Their Protest is directed not only against a fifth term of office of the aged heads of state, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, but in the meantime, against the leadership of the country as a whole.
dozens injured
The prospect of a further term of office of the head of state, Bouteflika has over a week of massive protests in Algeria. In the case of the demonstrations had been going on since Friday, tens of thousands of people on the street, it came to riots, the police used tear gas, dozens of people were injured.
More than 100 students gathered on Sunday in the vicinity of the University in the centre of Algiers. They were chanting: “Bouteflika, get out of here.” The police sealed off the Demonstration, as AFP reported journalists.
the police
According to the information of a student hundreds of demonstrators at several University locations in Algiers were blocked by the police. This applies in particular for the faculty of law at close of the constitutional court, where claimants to the presidency until Sunday, had evening to submit their candidacies.
The police moved to a large-scale operation at the court’s seat. The road to the building was locked. Journalists who wanted to report the arrival of the candidates were locked in a room.
protests were reported from students and the media, from numerous other cities in the country. In the city of Annaba, about 400 kilometers East of Algiers, demonstrated in several hundred students, said a local journalist.
In Geneva at the hospital
The 82-year-old Bouteflika, is standing for almost 20 years at the helm of the North African state. at the election on 18 April stand again, though he has retired since a stroke six years ago, largely out of the Public and in a wheelchair. Critics hold the frail head of state, who is currently being treated medically in Geneva, therefore a puppet of his environment.
The deadline to be a candidate for the presidential election on 18. April officially submitted, ends Sunday at midnight. Bouteflika had his re-candidacy announce.
so Far, six candidates for the electoral register, including the retired General Ali Ghediri. The young people are popular businessman Rachid Nekkaz has announced his candidacy on Sunday officially submit.
Several opposition politicians have announced a Boycott of the upcoming presidential election and called for further protests. The largest moderate Islamist party in Algeria, HMS’ve decided, not at the time of the vote to compete, should President Bouteflika to stand for re-election, it was said on the Sunday from party circles. Several opposition politicians had already announced their withdrawal. (Dec/sda)
Created: 03.03.2019, 15:32 PM
