Post by account_disabled on Mar 6, 2024 4:34:53 GMT
A small number of Algerian voters went to one of the , voting centers deployed throughout the country, under the strict guard of the police and the military, to express their preference between the five former ministers of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. , dismissed by the Army in a true coup d'état that Europe and the UN have preferred to ignore. Bouteflika, , governed Algeria for the last twenty years with the support of the armed forces surrounded by a cast of elderly officials left over from the generation that led the country to its independence in Algerians resigned themselves to the fact that Abdelaziz Bouteflika would win the elections with percentages that exceeded (in , with ) and that they were the envy of Western politicians.
Bouteflika even won the elections, after, in , a stroke reduced him to a kind of ghost who ruled, with an absent look, from a wheelchair and almost unable to speak. Things became Iraq Telegram Number Data complicated for Algeria's gerontocratic regime in February of this year, when the elderly dictator expressed his willingness to compete for a fifth consecutive presidential term. The young students and professionals immediately took to the streets in a peaceful protest that the regime could not ward off with repression and intimidation. The “hirak” (Protest) movement had been born , which without clear leaders demands changes in the ruling elite.
In April, General Gaïd Salah ( years old), the chief of staff and until then a solid ally of Bouteflika, assumed the political initiative and removed the president, suspending the presidential elections. A de facto government was installed under a civilian, the interim president and president of the Senate, Abdelkader Bensalah; and the Prime Minister, Nouredin Bedaui, whom they also consider part of former President Bouteflika's entourage. The new government rushed to organize last Thursday's elections by creating the Independent National Elections Authority (ANIE) for this purpose.
Bouteflika even won the elections, after, in , a stroke reduced him to a kind of ghost who ruled, with an absent look, from a wheelchair and almost unable to speak. Things became Iraq Telegram Number Data complicated for Algeria's gerontocratic regime in February of this year, when the elderly dictator expressed his willingness to compete for a fifth consecutive presidential term. The young students and professionals immediately took to the streets in a peaceful protest that the regime could not ward off with repression and intimidation. The “hirak” (Protest) movement had been born , which without clear leaders demands changes in the ruling elite.
In April, General Gaïd Salah ( years old), the chief of staff and until then a solid ally of Bouteflika, assumed the political initiative and removed the president, suspending the presidential elections. A de facto government was installed under a civilian, the interim president and president of the Senate, Abdelkader Bensalah; and the Prime Minister, Nouredin Bedaui, whom they also consider part of former President Bouteflika's entourage. The new government rushed to organize last Thursday's elections by creating the Independent National Elections Authority (ANIE) for this purpose.