Crowds of mainly young protesters demonstrated into the early hours of Monday after Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s campaign manager formalized the President’s candidacy for a fifth term
Algerians demonstrate against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's bid for a fifth term, in Algiers, on March 4, 2019.Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s offer of a new constitution and a truncated next term does not appear to have satisfied protesters, who faced off with riot police overnight.
Demonstrators set a social security office on fire in the working class neighbourhood of Belouizdad, an Islamist stronghold, prompting clashes with police.Demonstrations were also held in other cities against another term for Bouteflika, who has barely been seen in public since a 2013 stroke and is facing protests over his leadership of Africa’s largest country.
“I am resolute: If God wants and the Algerian people give me its trust, I will take the challenge of changing the regime,” Bouteflika wrote in a statement read on national television by campaign chief Abdelghani Zaalane.But protesters don’t want Bouteflika to run at all in the April 18 vote, and described the offer as a ploy to remain in power. Opposition parties are holding meetings Monday to decide the next steps after Bouteflika’s announcement.
Questions are swirling around who is actually running the country – the 82-year-old Bouteflika or a coterie of powerful aides and generals. His campaign chief submitted Bouteflika’s candidacy Sunday, instead of the president himself, who was in Switzerland last week for medical tests.Mystery around Bouteflika’s whereabouts and doubts about his fitness for office prompted the Algerian ambassador to France to insist Monday that “of course he is alive.
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