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Algeria: six months of anti-regime protests

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Algeria has been rocked by six months of protests demanding an overhaul of the ruling regime that have shown no let-up despite the April resignation of long-time president Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

On February 22, 2019, thousands of people demonstrate in Algiers and several other cities in the first major protests against Bouteflika’s candidacy in a presidential election set for April.

Amid fears he will attempt to cling to power, there are massive protests again the following Friday, March 15. They include the speaker of parliament’s upper house, Abdelkader Bensalah, who is on April 9 named interim president.Bensalah’s office calls the presidential election for July 4. Politicians and businessmen close to Bouteflika — including two former prime ministers — are arrested.

 

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