Commentary: Is a second Arab Spring underway in Algeria?

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Algerians will be fighting to wrest democratic control from a political elite that has used the country’s oil wealth to ensure its own survival at ...

PARIS: A sustained popular revolt by the Algerian people is demonstrating that economic-policy myopia in the face of significant national challenges can pose serious risks to a regime’s survival.

And in 2016, the government unveiled its “New Economic Model,” setting the stage for a gradual process of economic liberalisation. And in the summer of 2017, his successor, Abdelmajid Tebboune, began pursuing reforms to cut state spending and reduce corruption. But Algeria’s economic elite fiercely resisted these efforts, leading to Tebboune’s dismissal.

Despite the deterioration in economic security, Algerians’ reported commitment to democracy has remained relatively high, on par with that of Moroccans, Lebanese, and Jordanians. The coincidence of grievance and political aspiration suggests that this uprising has more in common with the Arab Spring of 2011 than with other past episodes of popular unrest driven largely by economic grievances, such as the October 1988 riots, the Black Spring of 2001, and the tens of thousands of localised micro-riots in the 2000s, during which participants made very specific claims on the government.

 

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