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Ahmed Ouyahia trashed with Yoghurt can in Guelma..following one of his famous past phrases ( not everybody needs yoghurt thrown at young employed) that is still haunt him to this day
John is here..
Bouteflika: hello John Wayne
Ahmed Ouyahia trashed with Yoghurt can in Guelma..following one of his famous past phrases ( not everybody needs yoghurt thrown at young employed) that is still haunt him to this day
John is here..
Bouteflika: hello John Wayne
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Members of the U.S. Congress Algeriepatriotique "We will audition Kerry"
ARTICLE | 5. APRIL 2014 - 7:40 P.M.
The U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, before Congress.DR
Following the visit of John Kerry in Algeria, Algeriepatriotiquecould join Senators and members of Congress for their opinion, especially concerning the interpretation of this visit presented as a possible candidate to deposit Bouteflika in his election campaign. Our interlocutors, both Republicans and Democrats were unanimous in expressing their shock and outrage at the handling of the Algerian official news agency who misquoted U.S. Secretary of State. They claimed that John Kerry "took a big risk" during this visit and they "expect the farm up to the audition," adding that "it bears sole responsibility for his actions." These senators and congressmen are surprised how the Secretary of State John Kerry urged the U.S. foreign policy, "the antithesis of the diplomatic tradition." They ensure that "neither they nor the White House have endorsed the candidacy of President Bouteflika directly or indirectly," adding that the Algerian elections "are for the Algerian people." Upon his return to the United States, John Kerry will be questioned on the grounds of his visit to Algeria. The atmosphere may be hot after what is considered a "faux pas" U.S. Secretary of State and that will certainly benefit Republicans who strongly condemned "the ease with which he treated his trip to Algeria» . For their part, personalities and active NGOs in the political and media world have confirmed Algeriepatriotique that "John Kerry has broken a very important rule when visiting an incumbent president in the countryside."All energetically denounce the deterioration of diplomatic management of the State Department headed by John Kerry and make him bear full responsibility, while questioning the cancellation of his trip to Ramallah while the peace process between Israel and the Palestinian Authority is a compromise in favor of a "tourist trip" in Algeria and Morocco, "with money from the American taxpayer." Our contacts in the Senate and Congress - the latter received Sahrawi activist Haidar recently - have, moreover, surprised that John Kerry "does not address the critical question of Western Sahara" during his visits to the "United who are the main actors in the resolution of this sensitive issue. " They are waiting for answers about the usefulness of visits John Kerry "who did not see fit to address this important issue, which is, however, a priority, considering his silence as a missed opportunity by the Obama administration to advance a thorny issue. " The media and political world in Washington is boiling and the journey of John Kerry in both countries raises many questions. The visit of John Kerry's entourage outgoing president Algeria tried to recover, did not have the same effect with the U.S. elites, however, are determined to put Obama on the grill right arm, which is sure to embarrass the White House who will struggle to justify this blunder as it happened with the involvement of the U.S. president to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. That falls ill after the recent scandal CIA accused of violating the Constitution by searching the computers used by U.S. lawmakers, in a case relating to the ancient techniques of interrogation of the controversial spy agency. The accusations triggered a public mayhem of a rare intensity between the CIA and Congress, the head of the spy agency, John Brennan, denied having sought to obstruct the investigation of the Senate Intelligence Committee, without commenting on the facts in detail. Mohsen Abdelmoumen
Barakat: anti-Bouteflika movement can it extend to all Algeria?
By Catherine Gouëset , published07/04/2014 at 16:18Updated at 18:14
Part of Algerians mobilizes against the candidacy of Abdelaziz Bouteflika, old and sick, to a fourth term. Barakat movement (" Enough " ) can it expand its audience beyond a small segment of the middle class?
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problems that led to the cancellation of a campaign rally pro-Bouteflika Saturday Bejaia will they break the dynamics of movement Barakat? Abdelmalek Sellal which campaigns instead ofgreatly diminished president , has had more success against him to mobilize anti-Bouteflika Barakat movement that formed in early March to denounce the candidacy of President Bouteflika Abdelaiz a fourth mandate . Sellal was received in this city of Kabylia shouting "Bouteflika releases" by some 250 demonstrators who then burned portraits of the head of state. A team of five people from the pro-Bouteflika En-Nahar channel, was attacked and four of its journalists were injured, according to its director.
"15 years, Barakat ! (' Enough '). " The cry of protest born of the announcement on February 22, the application of Abdelaziz Bouteflika to a fourth term by Abdelmalek Sellal-then Prime Minister, he suspended his functions for direct presidential campaign-is originally the movement of the same name. Bringing together people connected through social networks, Barakat has held rallies in cities across the country to protest against "the system" in place for 52 years of independence.
Forms circulating on Facebook: "I, the undersigned ... says he never met a member of the government and have never requested or urged anyone that you show to a fourth term on this,. I ask you to withdraw this policy "masquerade. One way to respond to the assertion that Bouteflika is at the request of his countrymen.
A move that was a surprise ...
The movement was born of indignation part of the population to nominate a head of state virtually impotent "We have become the laughing stock of the world re-elect a president who has not addressed. the Algerian people for 2 years ", carried away Yacine Zaid, a board member of the Algerian League for the Defence of Human Rights (LADDH).
Barakat is defined as a movement "citizen, peaceful and independent, which rejects the fourth term and advocates for the establishment of a genuine democracy in Algeria."
"Barakat created the surprise by bringing together a variety of people from backgrounds welcomes Yacine Zaid, Islamists to RCD" [Rally for Culture and Democracy party who called the army to stop the electoral process after Islamist victory in the first round of legislative elections in 1911, a prelude to 10 years of a bloody war]. "Algerians found voice to say tired of this system," he adds.
Another plus point of this movement, according to the activist, no leader stands out, although some figures have emerged as Amira Bouraoui, his spokesman, a gynecologist, Ghoul Hifnawi, editor of Atlas-tv and journalists Mehdi Bsikri and Mustapha Benfodil.
But pretty marginal ...
"The movement is based on a sound angry, but it affects only a small segment of the population, tempers Djaafer Said, editor of the website Maghreb emerging . It does not reach the poor neighborhoods, weaned policy " after years of violence in civil war (1992-1999) .
A criticism made by many observers. "This is a disconnected 80% of Algerian youth movement," said Omar Benderra economist. "He rarely attended by over a hundred people at each event, including the capital."
The move affects only a part of the Algerian middle class. It includes students, academics, and many journalists, which may explain in part its visibility.
Yacine Zaid, however, hope that the mobilization will expand, while concerned about the possible reaction of the "system" if the movement was gaining momentum. "In Algeria, when the system is afraid, it creates chaos," he says. Thus, the communal violence in Ghardaia recent months involved, according to him, the same strategy of tension that foul language held on March 11 by Abdelmalek Sellal against chaouis , Berber region of the Aures.These insults were originally an outcry in the region. Yacine Zaid, it is not a gaffe; he deliberately sought provocation.
Most observers are however skeptical about the ability of Barakat to change things in the country. What will remain of the movement after April 17, when no-doubt-Bouteflika was re-elected?
A "Potemkin democracy"
"In Algeria, the population does not show anger to the announcement of the election results, unlike other countries, because it does not feel represented by the political parties competing, said Luis Martinez, Director of Research the Ceri : they represent instruments for the patronage sytem deaf to people's expectations. " 2007 legislative elections, already, the turnout was only 35% officially, and probably just over 20%, according to the Socialist Forces Front (FFS opposition party has called for a boycott). "The government has managed to break the civil society in this country. He infiltrated and manipulated a number of associations. Algerian people is disoriented. He has no hope," insists Yacine Zaid. "This is why many Algerians do not trust anyone in any organization," says Omar Benderra.
Elections are a sham democracy, "a true Potemkin Village designed to meet international bodies", asserts Omar Benderra. A masquerade mocked by young Algerians "from below."
Barakat movement can it broaden its audience and offer an alternative to outlets that are riots shook the country at regular intervals, or leakage of this barren land, as these harragas (illegal immigrants) that are filmed aboard a small boat, fleeing their country by claiming: " Barakat enough! ".
With
ARTICLE | 5. APRIL 2014 - 7:40 P.M.
The U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, before Congress.DR
Following the visit of John Kerry in Algeria, Algeriepatriotiquecould join Senators and members of Congress for their opinion, especially concerning the interpretation of this visit presented as a possible candidate to deposit Bouteflika in his election campaign. Our interlocutors, both Republicans and Democrats were unanimous in expressing their shock and outrage at the handling of the Algerian official news agency who misquoted U.S. Secretary of State. They claimed that John Kerry "took a big risk" during this visit and they "expect the farm up to the audition," adding that "it bears sole responsibility for his actions." These senators and congressmen are surprised how the Secretary of State John Kerry urged the U.S. foreign policy, "the antithesis of the diplomatic tradition." They ensure that "neither they nor the White House have endorsed the candidacy of President Bouteflika directly or indirectly," adding that the Algerian elections "are for the Algerian people." Upon his return to the United States, John Kerry will be questioned on the grounds of his visit to Algeria. The atmosphere may be hot after what is considered a "faux pas" U.S. Secretary of State and that will certainly benefit Republicans who strongly condemned "the ease with which he treated his trip to Algeria» . For their part, personalities and active NGOs in the political and media world have confirmed Algeriepatriotique that "John Kerry has broken a very important rule when visiting an incumbent president in the countryside."All energetically denounce the deterioration of diplomatic management of the State Department headed by John Kerry and make him bear full responsibility, while questioning the cancellation of his trip to Ramallah while the peace process between Israel and the Palestinian Authority is a compromise in favor of a "tourist trip" in Algeria and Morocco, "with money from the American taxpayer." Our contacts in the Senate and Congress - the latter received Sahrawi activist Haidar recently - have, moreover, surprised that John Kerry "does not address the critical question of Western Sahara" during his visits to the "United who are the main actors in the resolution of this sensitive issue. " They are waiting for answers about the usefulness of visits John Kerry "who did not see fit to address this important issue, which is, however, a priority, considering his silence as a missed opportunity by the Obama administration to advance a thorny issue. " The media and political world in Washington is boiling and the journey of John Kerry in both countries raises many questions. The visit of John Kerry's entourage outgoing president Algeria tried to recover, did not have the same effect with the U.S. elites, however, are determined to put Obama on the grill right arm, which is sure to embarrass the White House who will struggle to justify this blunder as it happened with the involvement of the U.S. president to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. That falls ill after the recent scandal CIA accused of violating the Constitution by searching the computers used by U.S. lawmakers, in a case relating to the ancient techniques of interrogation of the controversial spy agency. The accusations triggered a public mayhem of a rare intensity between the CIA and Congress, the head of the spy agency, John Brennan, denied having sought to obstruct the investigation of the Senate Intelligence Committee, without commenting on the facts in detail. Mohsen Abdelmoumen
Barakat: anti-Bouteflika movement can it extend to all Algeria?
By Catherine Gouëset , published07/04/2014 at 16:18Updated at 18:14
Part of Algerians mobilizes against the candidacy of Abdelaziz Bouteflika, old and sick, to a fourth term. Barakat movement (" Enough " ) can it expand its audience beyond a small segment of the middle class?
problems that led to the cancellation of a campaign rally pro-Bouteflika Saturday Bejaia will they break the dynamics of movement Barakat? Abdelmalek Sellal which campaigns instead ofgreatly diminished president , has had more success against him to mobilize anti-Bouteflika Barakat movement that formed in early March to denounce the candidacy of President Bouteflika Abdelaiz a fourth mandate . Sellal was received in this city of Kabylia shouting "Bouteflika releases" by some 250 demonstrators who then burned portraits of the head of state. A team of five people from the pro-Bouteflika En-Nahar channel, was attacked and four of its journalists were injured, according to its director.
"15 years, Barakat ! (' Enough '). " The cry of protest born of the announcement on February 22, the application of Abdelaziz Bouteflika to a fourth term by Abdelmalek Sellal-then Prime Minister, he suspended his functions for direct presidential campaign-is originally the movement of the same name. Bringing together people connected through social networks, Barakat has held rallies in cities across the country to protest against "the system" in place for 52 years of independence.
Forms circulating on Facebook: "I, the undersigned ... says he never met a member of the government and have never requested or urged anyone that you show to a fourth term on this,. I ask you to withdraw this policy "masquerade. One way to respond to the assertion that Bouteflika is at the request of his countrymen.
A move that was a surprise ...
The movement was born of indignation part of the population to nominate a head of state virtually impotent "We have become the laughing stock of the world re-elect a president who has not addressed. the Algerian people for 2 years ", carried away Yacine Zaid, a board member of the Algerian League for the Defence of Human Rights (LADDH).
Barakat is defined as a movement "citizen, peaceful and independent, which rejects the fourth term and advocates for the establishment of a genuine democracy in Algeria."
"Barakat created the surprise by bringing together a variety of people from backgrounds welcomes Yacine Zaid, Islamists to RCD" [Rally for Culture and Democracy party who called the army to stop the electoral process after Islamist victory in the first round of legislative elections in 1911, a prelude to 10 years of a bloody war]. "Algerians found voice to say tired of this system," he adds.
Another plus point of this movement, according to the activist, no leader stands out, although some figures have emerged as Amira Bouraoui, his spokesman, a gynecologist, Ghoul Hifnawi, editor of Atlas-tv and journalists Mehdi Bsikri and Mustapha Benfodil.
But pretty marginal ...
"The movement is based on a sound angry, but it affects only a small segment of the population, tempers Djaafer Said, editor of the website Maghreb emerging . It does not reach the poor neighborhoods, weaned policy " after years of violence in civil war (1992-1999) .
A criticism made by many observers. "This is a disconnected 80% of Algerian youth movement," said Omar Benderra economist. "He rarely attended by over a hundred people at each event, including the capital."
The move affects only a part of the Algerian middle class. It includes students, academics, and many journalists, which may explain in part its visibility.
Yacine Zaid, however, hope that the mobilization will expand, while concerned about the possible reaction of the "system" if the movement was gaining momentum. "In Algeria, when the system is afraid, it creates chaos," he says. Thus, the communal violence in Ghardaia recent months involved, according to him, the same strategy of tension that foul language held on March 11 by Abdelmalek Sellal against chaouis , Berber region of the Aures.These insults were originally an outcry in the region. Yacine Zaid, it is not a gaffe; he deliberately sought provocation.
Most observers are however skeptical about the ability of Barakat to change things in the country. What will remain of the movement after April 17, when no-doubt-Bouteflika was re-elected?
A "Potemkin democracy"
"In Algeria, the population does not show anger to the announcement of the election results, unlike other countries, because it does not feel represented by the political parties competing, said Luis Martinez, Director of Research the Ceri : they represent instruments for the patronage sytem deaf to people's expectations. " 2007 legislative elections, already, the turnout was only 35% officially, and probably just over 20%, according to the Socialist Forces Front (FFS opposition party has called for a boycott). "The government has managed to break the civil society in this country. He infiltrated and manipulated a number of associations. Algerian people is disoriented. He has no hope," insists Yacine Zaid. "This is why many Algerians do not trust anyone in any organization," says Omar Benderra.
Elections are a sham democracy, "a true Potemkin Village designed to meet international bodies", asserts Omar Benderra. A masquerade mocked by young Algerians "from below."
Barakat movement can it broaden its audience and offer an alternative to outlets that are riots shook the country at regular intervals, or leakage of this barren land, as these harragas (illegal immigrants) that are filmed aboard a small boat, fleeing their country by claiming: " Barakat enough! ".
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Bouteflika's electorate machine and the moneying of the ballot...no vote no housing dixit the Wali of Algiers..
And the road block its facing at every meeting..
Benflis to officialize tamazight and to open Morocco-Algerian border...
Where things stand now, Bouteflika will be re-elected without surprise...[tiltle]
and without effort..[bubble]
Algerian presidential: the disillusionment of Algerians in France
The Monde.fr | 04/11/2014 at 9:39 • Updated 04/11/2014 at 3:47 p.m. |For Marine Messina
Twice a week since January, they are a dozen to find in the Montmartre district of Barbès, close to the permanence of their champion: Ali Benflis, Abdelaziz Bouteflika main rival , incumbent president and candidate for fourth term as head of Algeria . On April 12, the vote of Algerians in France will begin with five days ahead of the election organized by Algiers on April 17. Nearly 815,000 Algerians and bi are registered on the electoral lists Algerian consulates in France , which makes the Hexagon's fourth largest constituency election.
"We refuse to be governed by an undead, launches Samira, a student of 27 years.was not the choice but to s' oppose the fourth term. " Victim of a stroke in April 2013, Bouteflika, 77, leaves his lieutenants to campaign for him, and his health remains a mystery. The eyes of Samira Ali Benflis is the only credible option.Affiliated with the FLN, the party in power since independence, this man of the seraglio is now positioned in a "man of change" .
A Barbès, volunteers are divided on this hotspots frequented by immigrants market. Among them, students and young workers arrived in France a few years or older activists. Samira and director of the campaign Benflis Ali Said Naïli, are placed at the ends of subway and greet passers in colloquial Arabic or Kabyle.Those who respond are being offered the blue paper stamped "Every vote counts".
"SINCE WHEN YOU VOTE IN ALGERIA? "
More frontal, Patricia Fatima goes directly to market entry and collared passersby to anything-goes: "Algerian Presidential! Algerian presidential! " She has been working for twenty-five years, and says take as its double name, witnessed agrowing dual, that their rights as citizens of Algeria. Launched in the wings, his cries rival those sellers of fruits and vegetables and attract the curious, to which it places authority in the hands of a leaflet. "Anyway, those who vote, I recognize them from afar. It is those who are the mouth, they are disgusted " , she quips.
Difficult to mobilize: in 2004, only 33% of registered voters on electoral rolls French had participated in the presidential election. A Barbès, crowds form, the market becomes an agora. The atmosphere is skepticism: "Since when do we vote in Algeria? . " unnecessary vote face is vilified "mafia who eats Algeria" . For the majority, or Benflis Bouteflika, it makes little difference. Anyway, "it is already past is past" , repeated in older loop, shaking his head, closed face.
A former policeman says: " You know, I've worked for them in Algeria, I have monitored the elections. It's hopeless ... They put one paper next to the casket ... "Another: " I only vote in France, because there are real candidates. Algeria does not have a candidate. It hurts my heart, mocked Algerians. "
Supporting figures, Patricia Fatima yet sincerely believes in the victory of his favorite. "This time, we will win for sure! Algeria is with all Benflis. It mandated 60,000 observers to fight against fraud during the election. It is a technological time, urns double bottom, it's over now. " As for him to reason, a passerby stops and it takes twenty tracts, he would distribute his property, knowing that April 17 will be a holiday "to celebrate the victory " .
Read The Algeria boiling before the presidential
"YOU NECESSARILY OF INTEREST IN THIS COUNTRY"
They are still a minority in the stream of passersby on the market. Also minority that advocates Abdelaziz Bouteflika. "I do not take this paper launches a woman of forty years. Bouteflika I vote, it is a good president. He fought hard against terrorism, others do nothing at all. " A small group formed behind it. A young woman says "much love" the president and says it helps enormously his people.For proof, "he gave 70 million to all the poor for s' to buy an apartment " . She is convinced his brother told him. No doubt she will vote Abdelaziz Bouteflika Saturday, and even if it is "a shame he's sick".
Read The woes of Bouteflika Internet
The tone rises sometimes, like when a man takes activists: "You will always have interests in this country, nobody does anything without interest in Algeria! " Some French officers watching the scene. The pro-Benflis activists used. Even when hostile bandwidth spit and tears one of their tracts, they do not react.
The meeting ended towing, activists gather for lunch at the time. The president candidate unanimously condemned haunts conversations. "Do not lie , we have all enjoyed. The Algeria loved it! " says Samira. And Patricia Fatima outbid: "I voted for him the first time ... But from the second term, I was against. He did nothing in five years, what will he do now? " Samira continues: "It has not moved for a year.Hardly a hand gesture, and again, it's probably a fake cameras! " And to conclude, wryly: "Now it is a doll. "
A from Saturday until April 17, Samira and others will join a team of sixty volunteers in anticipation of fraud they fear, have made it their mission to observe the elections in polling stations French.
See the portfolio before the presidential, Algeria Sightings
At eleven days of the presidential Ali Benflis, the rival of incumbent President warns against massive fraud while young Kabyle protest against power.
The boss of the campaign Bouteflika had to backtrack Saturday morning. While he was holding a meeting in Bejaia in Kabylia, he felt that security conditions were not met. And for good reason: hundreds of young people blocking access to the Maison de la culture. Very angry, carrying placards "Bouteflika releases", they finally confront the police. It is not certain Abdelmalek Sellal, who bracketed his position as prime minister to lead the campaign of an invisible and silent president, expressed today in Tizi Ouzou.Again, in this stronghold revolts Kabyle, students have called for demonstrations. "Extremism leads to nothing", "people can distinguish the good from the bad," says Sellal a way as any to include his opponents in the camp of chaos.
The fear of massive fraud
Already this week, the camp Bouteflika was unleashed against the promise of his main opponent, Ali Benflis, engage in "a deepening of national reconciliation," understood: according to the power and relay, with Islamists Islamic ex-Front salvation (FIS). "This is a joke, disputes Ali Benflis in an interview Friday night by phone withJDD . I am the candidate of the people and all current I is a broadest possible dialogue and will be excluded that those who advocate violence. "
Would it be the victim of an attempted demonization by the regime to discredit, so that it becomes a candidate associated with memories of the black decade, the chaos and barbarism? "The chaos, there has long been," retorts Benflis, denouncing "corruption scandals" intense to sustain a system that thrives on oil revenues."True stability, this is not the life presidency, this is democracy," he insists before specifically warn against massive fraud.Comparable to or worse than in 2004, during the presidential election at the end of which, already against Bouteflika, he had received only 6.4% of the vote.
Benflis was deeply humiliated by his defeat at the time. According to a former dignitary of the regime, the ruling clan would have assured him at the time that the presidency would be granted. And there would be believed. Just as ambassadors who emissaries of the seraglio was assured that the military would "flush" Bouteflika to get rid of.
None of this had happened. The president was held by a victory at the polls and had Benflis moping, not without a desire for revenge."No election was not free in this country since independence," analysis for the JDD another former Prime Minister Sid Ahmed Ghozali. He who led the government during the FIS victory in the first round of the 1991 legislative estimated that the population "is no longer shocked by the seizure of power by a bunkerisé clan who thinks that society must obey him."
Campaign closed
It is in this blackmail chaos that Algerians will live until next weekend, which marks the end of the presidential campaign. A phase that has been experienced in camera. According to the newspaper El Watan , not only some Algerian private media like TV satellite channel Al Atlas were closed, but emissions were also censored. Reflecting System DZ Dzair on TV, to have found that reviewers and actors of the chain had been paid to participate in a music video in honor of President Bouteflika, insulted heavily on YouTube before being removed from the network social.
Saturday again, most of the major French media, the JDD , had still not received visas, yet sought since the announcement of the election date. As for the European Union, it has declined the invitation to send experts. In the last parliamentary in 2012, it had been noted that "the technical procedure" of the election, but without ruling on its legality and fairness. "It is difficult to believe that the FLN can be both the strength and continuity of the rupture," recently told a French visitor of high rank, accustomed to Algiers trip. "It's like a condominium corporation, summarizes a country specialist. While there may sometimes draw between the people who share the property, they do not intend to sell."
Francois Clemenceau - Le Journal du Dimanche
And the road block its facing at every meeting..
Benflis to officialize tamazight and to open Morocco-Algerian border...
Where things stand now, Bouteflika will be re-elected without surprise...[tiltle]
and without effort..[bubble]
Algerian presidential: the disillusionment of Algerians in France
The Monde.fr | 04/11/2014 at 9:39 • Updated 04/11/2014 at 3:47 p.m. |For Marine Messina
Twice a week since January, they are a dozen to find in the Montmartre district of Barbès, close to the permanence of their champion: Ali Benflis, Abdelaziz Bouteflika main rival , incumbent president and candidate for fourth term as head of Algeria . On April 12, the vote of Algerians in France will begin with five days ahead of the election organized by Algiers on April 17. Nearly 815,000 Algerians and bi are registered on the electoral lists Algerian consulates in France , which makes the Hexagon's fourth largest constituency election.
"We refuse to be governed by an undead, launches Samira, a student of 27 years.was not the choice but to s' oppose the fourth term. " Victim of a stroke in April 2013, Bouteflika, 77, leaves his lieutenants to campaign for him, and his health remains a mystery. The eyes of Samira Ali Benflis is the only credible option.Affiliated with the FLN, the party in power since independence, this man of the seraglio is now positioned in a "man of change" .
A Barbès, volunteers are divided on this hotspots frequented by immigrants market. Among them, students and young workers arrived in France a few years or older activists. Samira and director of the campaign Benflis Ali Said Naïli, are placed at the ends of subway and greet passers in colloquial Arabic or Kabyle.Those who respond are being offered the blue paper stamped "Every vote counts".
"SINCE WHEN YOU VOTE IN ALGERIA? "
More frontal, Patricia Fatima goes directly to market entry and collared passersby to anything-goes: "Algerian Presidential! Algerian presidential! " She has been working for twenty-five years, and says take as its double name, witnessed agrowing dual, that their rights as citizens of Algeria. Launched in the wings, his cries rival those sellers of fruits and vegetables and attract the curious, to which it places authority in the hands of a leaflet. "Anyway, those who vote, I recognize them from afar. It is those who are the mouth, they are disgusted " , she quips.
Difficult to mobilize: in 2004, only 33% of registered voters on electoral rolls French had participated in the presidential election. A Barbès, crowds form, the market becomes an agora. The atmosphere is skepticism: "Since when do we vote in Algeria? . " unnecessary vote face is vilified "mafia who eats Algeria" . For the majority, or Benflis Bouteflika, it makes little difference. Anyway, "it is already past is past" , repeated in older loop, shaking his head, closed face.
A former policeman says: " You know, I've worked for them in Algeria, I have monitored the elections. It's hopeless ... They put one paper next to the casket ... "Another: " I only vote in France, because there are real candidates. Algeria does not have a candidate. It hurts my heart, mocked Algerians. "
Supporting figures, Patricia Fatima yet sincerely believes in the victory of his favorite. "This time, we will win for sure! Algeria is with all Benflis. It mandated 60,000 observers to fight against fraud during the election. It is a technological time, urns double bottom, it's over now. " As for him to reason, a passerby stops and it takes twenty tracts, he would distribute his property, knowing that April 17 will be a holiday "to celebrate the victory " .
Read The Algeria boiling before the presidential
"YOU NECESSARILY OF INTEREST IN THIS COUNTRY"
They are still a minority in the stream of passersby on the market. Also minority that advocates Abdelaziz Bouteflika. "I do not take this paper launches a woman of forty years. Bouteflika I vote, it is a good president. He fought hard against terrorism, others do nothing at all. " A small group formed behind it. A young woman says "much love" the president and says it helps enormously his people.For proof, "he gave 70 million to all the poor for s' to buy an apartment " . She is convinced his brother told him. No doubt she will vote Abdelaziz Bouteflika Saturday, and even if it is "a shame he's sick".
Read The woes of Bouteflika Internet
The tone rises sometimes, like when a man takes activists: "You will always have interests in this country, nobody does anything without interest in Algeria! " Some French officers watching the scene. The pro-Benflis activists used. Even when hostile bandwidth spit and tears one of their tracts, they do not react.
The meeting ended towing, activists gather for lunch at the time. The president candidate unanimously condemned haunts conversations. "Do not lie , we have all enjoyed. The Algeria loved it! " says Samira. And Patricia Fatima outbid: "I voted for him the first time ... But from the second term, I was against. He did nothing in five years, what will he do now? " Samira continues: "It has not moved for a year.Hardly a hand gesture, and again, it's probably a fake cameras! " And to conclude, wryly: "Now it is a doll. "
A from Saturday until April 17, Samira and others will join a team of sixty volunteers in anticipation of fraud they fear, have made it their mission to observe the elections in polling stations French.
See the portfolio before the presidential, Algeria Sightings
- Marine Messina
At eleven days of the presidential Ali Benflis, the rival of incumbent President warns against massive fraud while young Kabyle protest against power.
The boss of the campaign Bouteflika had to backtrack Saturday morning. While he was holding a meeting in Bejaia in Kabylia, he felt that security conditions were not met. And for good reason: hundreds of young people blocking access to the Maison de la culture. Very angry, carrying placards "Bouteflika releases", they finally confront the police. It is not certain Abdelmalek Sellal, who bracketed his position as prime minister to lead the campaign of an invisible and silent president, expressed today in Tizi Ouzou.Again, in this stronghold revolts Kabyle, students have called for demonstrations. "Extremism leads to nothing", "people can distinguish the good from the bad," says Sellal a way as any to include his opponents in the camp of chaos.
The fear of massive fraud
Already this week, the camp Bouteflika was unleashed against the promise of his main opponent, Ali Benflis, engage in "a deepening of national reconciliation," understood: according to the power and relay, with Islamists Islamic ex-Front salvation (FIS). "This is a joke, disputes Ali Benflis in an interview Friday night by phone withJDD . I am the candidate of the people and all current I is a broadest possible dialogue and will be excluded that those who advocate violence. "
Would it be the victim of an attempted demonization by the regime to discredit, so that it becomes a candidate associated with memories of the black decade, the chaos and barbarism? "The chaos, there has long been," retorts Benflis, denouncing "corruption scandals" intense to sustain a system that thrives on oil revenues."True stability, this is not the life presidency, this is democracy," he insists before specifically warn against massive fraud.Comparable to or worse than in 2004, during the presidential election at the end of which, already against Bouteflika, he had received only 6.4% of the vote.
Benflis was deeply humiliated by his defeat at the time. According to a former dignitary of the regime, the ruling clan would have assured him at the time that the presidency would be granted. And there would be believed. Just as ambassadors who emissaries of the seraglio was assured that the military would "flush" Bouteflika to get rid of.
None of this had happened. The president was held by a victory at the polls and had Benflis moping, not without a desire for revenge."No election was not free in this country since independence," analysis for the JDD another former Prime Minister Sid Ahmed Ghozali. He who led the government during the FIS victory in the first round of the 1991 legislative estimated that the population "is no longer shocked by the seizure of power by a bunkerisé clan who thinks that society must obey him."
Campaign closed
It is in this blackmail chaos that Algerians will live until next weekend, which marks the end of the presidential campaign. A phase that has been experienced in camera. According to the newspaper El Watan , not only some Algerian private media like TV satellite channel Al Atlas were closed, but emissions were also censored. Reflecting System DZ Dzair on TV, to have found that reviewers and actors of the chain had been paid to participate in a music video in honor of President Bouteflika, insulted heavily on YouTube before being removed from the network social.
Saturday again, most of the major French media, the JDD , had still not received visas, yet sought since the announcement of the election date. As for the European Union, it has declined the invitation to send experts. In the last parliamentary in 2012, it had been noted that "the technical procedure" of the election, but without ruling on its legality and fairness. "It is difficult to believe that the FLN can be both the strength and continuity of the rupture," recently told a French visitor of high rank, accustomed to Algiers trip. "It's like a condominium corporation, summarizes a country specialist. While there may sometimes draw between the people who share the property, they do not intend to sell."
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Algeria: Bouteflika and the difficulty of selling a fourth termThat the election campaign in full swing in Algeria is a figure of speech in multiple meanings. Election meetings in Algeria or abroad take place under extreme tension safe.Those Bouteflika often end booed and stoned when they are not simply canceled because of the violence they générèrent. That is to say how this re-election campaign is experienced as a terrible ordeal instead of a moment of national communion.
This campaign is of great originality. First on the form. Bouteflika The candidatecampaigned through his portraits and spokespersons. It remains caulked by illness at his residence to watch the echoes far and wait for confirmation of the extension of the lease. In its place, its doors voice scrambling like hell to convince suspicious and reluctant. They often do so with the strength of despair and it gives output as surreal as those whose campaign manager Abdelmalek Sellal became a specialist. Sellal look wrestler late career, a verb hardiness to rival the most remote lands, rugged accent with a questionable language bilingualism. It is becoming the true revelation of this campaign.
As original substance. There is no question in his meetings detailing presidential program, discuss its feasibility, its attractiveness. Discussed above to convince a largely reticent than the fourth term is what can happen better Algerians opinion. All communication campaign is configured to transmit the message. Even rival candidates castes was to give credibility to the idea of a fourth term. Relegated to roles drivers scene, most of them as media Ali Benflis or Louise Hannoune validate their benefits unable to choose another man Abdelaziz Bouteflika to run the palace Mouradia.
But sign of the times, the Algerians wanted to address this message to Bouteflika and the system that wants him back, "You can not take it to Paradise You will be re-elected but in pain and ridiculous.". Social networks have been the great receptacle of this anger and bitterness. Violence in meetings its counterpart in the acidity of comment on social networks.
It seems clear that the campaign team Bouteflika had relied on conventional media control.This propensity went to encourage the creation of private channels televise funded by friends and forced fortunes. All aimed to control the communication of this agreement for the sale to better domestic and international. But they did not reckon with uncontrollable magic of social networks and open spaces of freedom they offer to the voiceless and non-forum.
The history of video song in praise of Bouteflika illustrated this great mobilization of both underground and assertive against the fourth term. Algerian youth, eager for change, has seized these new communication tools translate the malaise of the street. The weapon of black humor has been used, sometimes with the talent offered despair, to better reflect the vast uncertain abyss which opens the fourth term. Once the streetlights off the campaign, there will be this great Algerian bitterness that has captured the fabric and weigh heavily on the mood of the country.
The international community is following with great concern the conduct of the presidential elections in Algeria. The European Union has abandoned the idea of sending observers on hand to monitor and validate the mechanisms of this poll. Countries such as France which Algeria is bound by a particular historical relationship observed a heavy silence. If French diplomacy does not denounce the spirit of the fourth term, it does not praise the virtues either. Since Bouteflika decided to represent the dice are thrown. To Paris, left and right, Bouteflika of Algeria will be the next president. The Americans either have not missed the opportunity to manifest. Chance of diplomatic calendar, John Kerry, Secretary of State, placed next to Bouteflika uncertain gait and panting. His campaign has used this image for sale to the Algerian international opinion this blessing fourth term. The international press, particularly French, remains in its prohibited visa together. Its coverage of events is from Paris and through social networks. What gift to amplify the frustration of Algerians who give the impression of being deaf put under media and political quarantine as long as the system can afford Bouteflika renewal.
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Presidential election in Algeria Camps Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Ali Benflis harden the tone
HuffPost Maghreb | By Tahir MalikPublished:04/11/2014 1:45 p.m. EST
Whereas Ghardaia, in the south of the country, inter-communal clashes resumed as evidenced by this disturbing video posted by Rachid Nekkaz ( viewing below ) retoqué presidential candidate, a certain excitement settles within states headquarters during the last days of the campaign. Bouteflika camp warns against the use of the street, the camp Benflis warns against fraud.
We waited Abdelmalek Sellal officially campaign manager of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is Ahmed Ouyahia, his chief of staff since mid-March, which happened yesterday on the show "Issues and Programs" with the public broadcaster a speech honed, pretty jargon.
A change that avoids casting the presidential camp out, impromptu and sometimes disastrous, Abdelmalek Sellal amateur gags that turn against him.
Journalists who interviewed the day before Ali Benflis on a vengeful mode have been very "respectful". This gave a quiet but flat emission compared to that of yesterdaywhere journalists, for a flagrant bias, have been widely used Ali Benflis.
Ahmed Ouyahia "concrete" in the issue: there is no "political exclusion" in Algeria, democracy advance, he does not like the Barakat movement, like the "spring" in which he refuses to attach the adjective of "Arab".
This is not a novelty in Ouyahia has already put forward in the past a conspiratorial vision of "spring" that is not "Arab" but a "deluge" to Arab countries.
The theme of the foreign "threat" against the "stability" associated with the Arab Spring has been hammered by the ministers in charge of the campaign on behalf of Bouteflika.
In one of his recent meeting he stated that the "Arab Spring is really a tragedy"that has brought "to countries that disorder, instability and a decline in the development process."
A "spring" climate for sit-in!
The biggest concern of Bouteflika camp after a difficult campaign to warn against the "use the street." Abdelkader Bensalah, President of the Council of the Nation (Senate) warned that this perspective was a "red line."
This was the main message Ouyahia during the show.
He did it for the anti-fraud developed by Ali Benflis, main opponent Abdelaziz Bouteflika speech. Ali Benflis which estimates that in 2004, it is the fraud that has not won Bouteflika, showing signs he will not be satisfied, April 17 at night to go home.
What will Ali Benflis is the main topic of discussions, such as on Radio, web-radio Maghreb Emergent grouping in the "kitchen" Algerian journalists dissect the events related to the presidential elections.
And if Ali Benflis, rising tone, without going into details, some of his supporters, openly mention a challenge by the street. This is the case Bensaid Ahmed Lakhdarformer Secretary General of Coordination children chouhadas (martyrs).
"In cases of proven fraud in elections, will arrange the street. We observe, firstly, permanent and peaceful sit-in outside the headquarters of the supervisory commissions and local elections to the Constitutional Council".
And he adds, "for the sit-in, the spring climate lends itself perfectly to camp overnight before the Constitutional Council ...".
Remember what this "Arab Spring" has provoked fears of Bouteflika camp?
ALGERIA: Bouteflika, the absent candidate
Protesters against a fourth term Abdelaziz Bouteflika at the head of the state regularly disrupt the conduct of meetings organized by the campaign team of the incumbent president.
Abdelmalek Sellal campaigning candidate for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, in Tizi-Ouzou in Kabylia April 6 -AFP/Farouk Batiche
We must say bluntly or euphemism incidents forced Abdelmalek Sellal [former Prime Minister Bouteflika appointed March 13 Campaign Director of the outgoing president] to cancel its April 5 meeting to Bejaia in Kabylia [protesters prevented the campaign team to access the place of meeting] are wrong, absolutely reprehensible! They are all over this city, with the intellectual and civic which has always distinguished depth has always to be exercised rightly also a land of democracy.
And when you believe in democracy, you must believe more in the opinion of the other, even if we do not share. "I do not agree with what you say but I will defend to the death for your right to say it." This award is lent to the great French philosopher of the seventeenth century, Voltaire, every democrat must make his viaticum, emblem in the free expression of opinions.
The pill that Algerians are unable to swallow
This principle was reiterated and strongly emphasized, it should, however, say that the first form of violence, much earlier in the campaign, the fourth term itself [that is seeking Abdelaziz Bouteflika, in power since April 1999 who suffered a stroke in April 2013]. A fourth term which already sounds like a promise for Algeria made its sensational debut in the Guinness Book. Because it is a first in the world a presidential candidate, seeking the popular vote, is totally absent from the scene, he is supposed to be the pivot of the campaign.
Do not we say that this is a presidential meeting between the candidate and the people? This absence-presence is a bitter pill that Algerians slammed in their right mind, intelligence, are unable to swallow, despite all the media and financial armada in the service of the campaign Bouteflika to produce the illusion of reality. So much for the first three terms of Bouteflika, things, shall we say, had held more or less normally, as long as we can talk about normality in a country where the electoral masses resemble quiet jokes, much to the time around, things are pretty bad.
The proliferation of campaign hiccups in meetings led by representatives of Bouteflika are proof positive. And this begs the question: what expressions of hostility to the candidacy of Bouteflika expressed in Ouargla, Batna, Oum El Bouaghi, Relizane, would the beginning of a slap on the evening of 17 April?
Algeria, Bouteflika Enough"
HuffPost Maghreb | By Tahir MalikPublished:04/11/2014 1:45 p.m. EST
Whereas Ghardaia, in the south of the country, inter-communal clashes resumed as evidenced by this disturbing video posted by Rachid Nekkaz ( viewing below ) retoqué presidential candidate, a certain excitement settles within states headquarters during the last days of the campaign. Bouteflika camp warns against the use of the street, the camp Benflis warns against fraud.
We waited Abdelmalek Sellal officially campaign manager of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is Ahmed Ouyahia, his chief of staff since mid-March, which happened yesterday on the show "Issues and Programs" with the public broadcaster a speech honed, pretty jargon.
A change that avoids casting the presidential camp out, impromptu and sometimes disastrous, Abdelmalek Sellal amateur gags that turn against him.
Journalists who interviewed the day before Ali Benflis on a vengeful mode have been very "respectful". This gave a quiet but flat emission compared to that of yesterdaywhere journalists, for a flagrant bias, have been widely used Ali Benflis.
Ahmed Ouyahia "concrete" in the issue: there is no "political exclusion" in Algeria, democracy advance, he does not like the Barakat movement, like the "spring" in which he refuses to attach the adjective of "Arab".
This is not a novelty in Ouyahia has already put forward in the past a conspiratorial vision of "spring" that is not "Arab" but a "deluge" to Arab countries.
The theme of the foreign "threat" against the "stability" associated with the Arab Spring has been hammered by the ministers in charge of the campaign on behalf of Bouteflika.
In one of his recent meeting he stated that the "Arab Spring is really a tragedy"that has brought "to countries that disorder, instability and a decline in the development process."
A "spring" climate for sit-in!
The biggest concern of Bouteflika camp after a difficult campaign to warn against the "use the street." Abdelkader Bensalah, President of the Council of the Nation (Senate) warned that this perspective was a "red line."
This was the main message Ouyahia during the show.
He did it for the anti-fraud developed by Ali Benflis, main opponent Abdelaziz Bouteflika speech. Ali Benflis which estimates that in 2004, it is the fraud that has not won Bouteflika, showing signs he will not be satisfied, April 17 at night to go home.
What will Ali Benflis is the main topic of discussions, such as on Radio, web-radio Maghreb Emergent grouping in the "kitchen" Algerian journalists dissect the events related to the presidential elections.
And if Ali Benflis, rising tone, without going into details, some of his supporters, openly mention a challenge by the street. This is the case Bensaid Ahmed Lakhdarformer Secretary General of Coordination children chouhadas (martyrs).
"In cases of proven fraud in elections, will arrange the street. We observe, firstly, permanent and peaceful sit-in outside the headquarters of the supervisory commissions and local elections to the Constitutional Council".
And he adds, "for the sit-in, the spring climate lends itself perfectly to camp overnight before the Constitutional Council ...".
Remember what this "Arab Spring" has provoked fears of Bouteflika camp?
ALGERIA: Bouteflika, the absent candidate
Protesters against a fourth term Abdelaziz Bouteflika at the head of the state regularly disrupt the conduct of meetings organized by the campaign team of the incumbent president.
We must say bluntly or euphemism incidents forced Abdelmalek Sellal [former Prime Minister Bouteflika appointed March 13 Campaign Director of the outgoing president] to cancel its April 5 meeting to Bejaia in Kabylia [protesters prevented the campaign team to access the place of meeting] are wrong, absolutely reprehensible! They are all over this city, with the intellectual and civic which has always distinguished depth has always to be exercised rightly also a land of democracy.
And when you believe in democracy, you must believe more in the opinion of the other, even if we do not share. "I do not agree with what you say but I will defend to the death for your right to say it." This award is lent to the great French philosopher of the seventeenth century, Voltaire, every democrat must make his viaticum, emblem in the free expression of opinions.
The pill that Algerians are unable to swallow
This principle was reiterated and strongly emphasized, it should, however, say that the first form of violence, much earlier in the campaign, the fourth term itself [that is seeking Abdelaziz Bouteflika, in power since April 1999 who suffered a stroke in April 2013]. A fourth term which already sounds like a promise for Algeria made its sensational debut in the Guinness Book. Because it is a first in the world a presidential candidate, seeking the popular vote, is totally absent from the scene, he is supposed to be the pivot of the campaign.
Do not we say that this is a presidential meeting between the candidate and the people? This absence-presence is a bitter pill that Algerians slammed in their right mind, intelligence, are unable to swallow, despite all the media and financial armada in the service of the campaign Bouteflika to produce the illusion of reality. So much for the first three terms of Bouteflika, things, shall we say, had held more or less normally, as long as we can talk about normality in a country where the electoral masses resemble quiet jokes, much to the time around, things are pretty bad.
The proliferation of campaign hiccups in meetings led by representatives of Bouteflika are proof positive. And this begs the question: what expressions of hostility to the candidacy of Bouteflika expressed in Ouargla, Batna, Oum El Bouaghi, Relizane, would the beginning of a slap on the evening of 17 April?
Algeria, Bouteflika Enough"
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Bouteflika trying to make a run for ElMouradia (the Algerian White House)
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Background of systemic crisis, the campaign ends in tension: The quirks of the com Bouteflika and revolt Benflis
Salem by Ferdi
The election campaign officially ended yesterday. It was marked by a sharp polarization between supporters of incumbent president running for a fourth term, and those of Ali Benflis. This snarling battle that has largely eclipsed the other candidates ends in the exchange of invectives and accusations. Torn Ghardaia began well before the election. They served as the backdrop of a surreal campaign. Even if it was predictable, the announcement of the bid for a fourth term Bouteflika has created a shock and even sparked an awakening of dormant disputes. Even though he made a few appearances by meeting the foreign ministers of passage, the ability to Bouteflika to conduct the affairs of the state remained a strong presence theme. The fact that his campaign was conducted from beginning to end without his "presence" by a bunch of ministers around the controversial Abdelmalek Sellal could not afford to forget the issue of the ability of the Head of State to re-enlist for another term. While the decision to re-enlist created a feeling that toppled in a mode of life presidency-which no longer exists in totalitarian systems, very serious mistakes communications presidential camp have created tensions and generated opposition. The very unfortunate gag on Chaouias Abdelmalek Sellal even if he was not motivated by bad intentions, fell in a national context already tense. It has become a time "scoring" of the campaign, even a turning point. GAG ON THE Chaouias, MARKER To the east, in Chaouias and beyond the camp Bouteflika suffers the consequences of this bad joke. He allowed Ali Benflis that, even if the region did not necessarily general acceptance refueling. In these areas, there is already a certain determination to enter into disputes which may speak after April 17. The presidential campaign was not conducted with the facility provided even if it had been long prepared by visits in the provinces where Abdelmalek Sellal as "tradition" has been assigned resources and promises. And it is not only communication errors Sellal it "Fakakir to which we tend to impute on Facebook all the nonsense imaginable, who explained these difficulties. AMROUL'HA DJED'HA! conflict among leaders regime become "visible" after the output against Amar Saïdani General Toufik, the head of the DRS, weighed heavily. Some noted with some humor that the "know-how" DRS has greatly failed to Bouteflika campaign began with disability necessarily be that of a man in power since 1999. Watchword was all found for opponents, "Why the failed fifteen years will he succeed in the next five years?" And the difficulties encountered by the campaign, sometimes violently as to Bejaia where Sellal was prevented from holding a meeting are not made the supporters of Ali Benflis, contrary to what is suggested by the violent release issued Saturday by the team Sellal. In fact, the fourth term crystallizes various oppositions, often unorganized, which combines a feeling of anger against "life presidency," the blunders of team communication Sellal yesterday he launched an equivocal "Amroul ' ha djed'ha "(fill in the boxes!) - and the effect of acute crisis within the regime. STABILITY? IN THE NEWS AFTER 17 Most worrying for the camp Bouteflika is the theme of "stability" they put forward until saturation could turn against them in the aftermath of April 17. Hence also in rule attacks against Ali Benflis accused of all evils. He is accused of threatening the walis and heads of daïras and work "to cast doubt on the transparency of elections, posing proactively victim of fraud and putting his victory as inevitable, despite signs that do not lie, an electoral debacle announced on. " This fear Benflis refuse to "go quietly at home" after April 17 resulted in very surprising Release Abdelaziz Bouteflika before the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs. "That candidate threatens walis and authorities say pay attention to your families and your children in the event of fraud, it means say what? ... This is terrorism through the television!" Unheard of in the Algerian official annals where we often tend to blame the opponents on the go to "complain" among foreigners. But the output is indicative of the concern of the presidential camp after a campaign entirely "specific". Benflis UNIQUE RIVALUnsurprisingly, by dint of being the target of the presidential camp, Ali Benflis was inducted into de facto primary-if not sole-rival serious Bouteflika. Louisa Hanoune has also contributed to this by attacking more often than Benflis Bouteflika is yet carrying a balance. As its economic program where he built on the many criticisms made by experts and operators about the policy Bouteflika, Ali Benflis, whose main opponent is the boycott took advantage of the combination of "anti-Bouteflika" to give stature. His speech has become, over the days, stronger and more determined. Those hitherto in opposition as in the camp Bouteflika, there saw the hare "main and necessary" for the 2014 election, began to see a different perspective. And if he refused to "play" the part that was intended for him in a remake of 2004? In support of this possibility of "revolt of the hare," we note that the system does not have the same consistency in 2014 and its divisions are spread out in broad daylight. There is a "gap" in which Ali Benflis could rush. READY TO ARM WRESTLING? Provided ready to engage in arm wrestling. And apparently he wants. He insists that there is no question he is silent in case of fraud. During the program "issues and programs" where he faces with a certain panache to particularly aggressive journalists, he showed his determination. "When a thief comes to me to take my property, you do not expect me to say welcome him? Millions of Algerians who are with me will not agree to shut up! ". His supporters openly mention the use of the organization sit-in in case of "proven fraud". In a statement released yesterday accuses camp Bouteflika distort his remarks on the walis and heads of daïras. He emphasizes that he has appealed to state officials asking them to "be aware of the heavy responsibility they bear in the fairness and transparency of elections." And that these state officials know "at the bottom of themselves" Allah "condemns fraud, that morality rejects and condemns the law." The campaign, which took place amid rifts in Ghardaia ends in tension and uncertainty of the post-April 17.
Bouteflika accuse Benflis of violence during the compaign..
Bouteflika seeing the carotte thrawn at him...
In the bubble...No doubt , it is him...
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Lakhdhar Brahima, I saw a marked improvement in Bouteflika's health..
Special Envoy of the United Nations and the Arab League to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi told after meeting the President of the Republic Abdelaziz Bouteflika "I was very happy to meet him, I noticed a marked improvement in state of health. " Algerian diplomat spoke on television Ennahar.
He did not fail to recall addressing the content of his conversation with Bouteflika on the presidential and the president himself belong to a generation of proud independence, and that they will not accept any foreign interference in the cases of Algeria.
Benflis at Rouiba..
Bouteflika as seen in the social media
Bouteflika trying to make a run for ElMouradia (the Algerian White House)
From le quotidien-oran...
Background of systemic crisis, the campaign ends in tension: The quirks of the com Bouteflika and revolt Benflis
Salem by Ferdi
The election campaign officially ended yesterday. It was marked by a sharp polarization between supporters of incumbent president running for a fourth term, and those of Ali Benflis. This snarling battle that has largely eclipsed the other candidates ends in the exchange of invectives and accusations. Torn Ghardaia began well before the election. They served as the backdrop of a surreal campaign. Even if it was predictable, the announcement of the bid for a fourth term Bouteflika has created a shock and even sparked an awakening of dormant disputes. Even though he made a few appearances by meeting the foreign ministers of passage, the ability to Bouteflika to conduct the affairs of the state remained a strong presence theme. The fact that his campaign was conducted from beginning to end without his "presence" by a bunch of ministers around the controversial Abdelmalek Sellal could not afford to forget the issue of the ability of the Head of State to re-enlist for another term. While the decision to re-enlist created a feeling that toppled in a mode of life presidency-which no longer exists in totalitarian systems, very serious mistakes communications presidential camp have created tensions and generated opposition. The very unfortunate gag on Chaouias Abdelmalek Sellal even if he was not motivated by bad intentions, fell in a national context already tense. It has become a time "scoring" of the campaign, even a turning point. GAG ON THE Chaouias, MARKER To the east, in Chaouias and beyond the camp Bouteflika suffers the consequences of this bad joke. He allowed Ali Benflis that, even if the region did not necessarily general acceptance refueling. In these areas, there is already a certain determination to enter into disputes which may speak after April 17. The presidential campaign was not conducted with the facility provided even if it had been long prepared by visits in the provinces where Abdelmalek Sellal as "tradition" has been assigned resources and promises. And it is not only communication errors Sellal it "Fakakir to which we tend to impute on Facebook all the nonsense imaginable, who explained these difficulties. AMROUL'HA DJED'HA! conflict among leaders regime become "visible" after the output against Amar Saïdani General Toufik, the head of the DRS, weighed heavily. Some noted with some humor that the "know-how" DRS has greatly failed to Bouteflika campaign began with disability necessarily be that of a man in power since 1999. Watchword was all found for opponents, "Why the failed fifteen years will he succeed in the next five years?" And the difficulties encountered by the campaign, sometimes violently as to Bejaia where Sellal was prevented from holding a meeting are not made the supporters of Ali Benflis, contrary to what is suggested by the violent release issued Saturday by the team Sellal. In fact, the fourth term crystallizes various oppositions, often unorganized, which combines a feeling of anger against "life presidency," the blunders of team communication Sellal yesterday he launched an equivocal "Amroul ' ha djed'ha "(fill in the boxes!) - and the effect of acute crisis within the regime. STABILITY? IN THE NEWS AFTER 17 Most worrying for the camp Bouteflika is the theme of "stability" they put forward until saturation could turn against them in the aftermath of April 17. Hence also in rule attacks against Ali Benflis accused of all evils. He is accused of threatening the walis and heads of daïras and work "to cast doubt on the transparency of elections, posing proactively victim of fraud and putting his victory as inevitable, despite signs that do not lie, an electoral debacle announced on. " This fear Benflis refuse to "go quietly at home" after April 17 resulted in very surprising Release Abdelaziz Bouteflika before the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs. "That candidate threatens walis and authorities say pay attention to your families and your children in the event of fraud, it means say what? ... This is terrorism through the television!" Unheard of in the Algerian official annals where we often tend to blame the opponents on the go to "complain" among foreigners. But the output is indicative of the concern of the presidential camp after a campaign entirely "specific". Benflis UNIQUE RIVALUnsurprisingly, by dint of being the target of the presidential camp, Ali Benflis was inducted into de facto primary-if not sole-rival serious Bouteflika. Louisa Hanoune has also contributed to this by attacking more often than Benflis Bouteflika is yet carrying a balance. As its economic program where he built on the many criticisms made by experts and operators about the policy Bouteflika, Ali Benflis, whose main opponent is the boycott took advantage of the combination of "anti-Bouteflika" to give stature. His speech has become, over the days, stronger and more determined. Those hitherto in opposition as in the camp Bouteflika, there saw the hare "main and necessary" for the 2014 election, began to see a different perspective. And if he refused to "play" the part that was intended for him in a remake of 2004? In support of this possibility of "revolt of the hare," we note that the system does not have the same consistency in 2014 and its divisions are spread out in broad daylight. There is a "gap" in which Ali Benflis could rush. READY TO ARM WRESTLING? Provided ready to engage in arm wrestling. And apparently he wants. He insists that there is no question he is silent in case of fraud. During the program "issues and programs" where he faces with a certain panache to particularly aggressive journalists, he showed his determination. "When a thief comes to me to take my property, you do not expect me to say welcome him? Millions of Algerians who are with me will not agree to shut up! ". His supporters openly mention the use of the organization sit-in in case of "proven fraud". In a statement released yesterday accuses camp Bouteflika distort his remarks on the walis and heads of daïras. He emphasizes that he has appealed to state officials asking them to "be aware of the heavy responsibility they bear in the fairness and transparency of elections." And that these state officials know "at the bottom of themselves" Allah "condemns fraud, that morality rejects and condemns the law." The campaign, which took place amid rifts in Ghardaia ends in tension and uncertainty of the post-April 17.
Bouteflika accuse Benflis of violence during the compaign..
Bouteflika seeing the carotte thrawn at him...
In the bubble...No doubt , it is him...
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Lakhdhar Brahima, I saw a marked improvement in Bouteflika's health..
Special Envoy of the United Nations and the Arab League to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi told after meeting the President of the Republic Abdelaziz Bouteflika "I was very happy to meet him, I noticed a marked improvement in state of health. " Algerian diplomat spoke on television Ennahar.
He did not fail to recall addressing the content of his conversation with Bouteflika on the presidential and the president himself belong to a generation of proud independence, and that they will not accept any foreign interference in the cases of Algeria.
Benflis at Rouiba..
Bouteflika as seen in the social media
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Sellal (Bouteflika's campaign manager) and Saidani the FLN party Chief at the %th July cupola..
The Barakat movement..
The ex integrist FIS party trying to reposition itself..
Seminar on the Algerian politics..
MONDAY, APRIL 14, 2014
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Bouteflika, grafitti, in "Abode of Chaos" Museum of Contemporary Art, Saint-Romain-au-Mont-d'Or © T. Ehrmann
Before the presidential election in Algeria, April 17, Christine Ockrent analyzes the political situation in the company of his guests, the very special nature of this phantom campaign and reported on the face Algeria AQIM and terrorism in . the Sahel with Benjamin Stora , historian, professor at the University Paris-13 , he recently published postcolonies Travel: Vietnam, Algeria, Morocco (Stock, 2012).
and Akram Belkaïd , essayist and journalist for Le Quotidien d'Oran. has just published Returns in Algeria: the emotional reunion with Algeria today(Carnets Nord, 2013).
and the phone from Morocco Djallil Lounnas , Assistant Professor Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane. His publications include "The Algerian strategy against Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb," Foreign Policy, Number 3, September 2013.
After Bouteflika"s supporter song , the opposants have theirs too..
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Algerian presidential campaign ends in a very tense
The Monde.fr | 14/04/2014 at 11:42 • Updated 14/04/2014 at 12:04 |By Isabelle Mandraud
Was expected Sunday, April 13 at La Coupole, the great Olympic complex west of Algiers. It appeared yesterday on television. Throughout a campaign started on 23March, the outgoing president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 77 years old, a candidate for a fourth term after fifteen years at the head of the Algerian state, was not sent to his constituents.
Sunday ill, he left his team gathered in full force to animate the last meeting on his behalf before a giant portrait. The day before, however, the Algerians had confirmation of the very tense atmosphere and the climate of violence in which the campaign ends.
Portfolio >>: Algeria: the six presidential candidates
In a short two-minute excerpt published Saturday by the Algerian television, Bouteflika became receiving the Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo. Soon passed greetings, exchange filmed beginning with the words of the president: "For some time, it [the campaign] lacked elegance. At times there have been calls to violence, behaviors unorthodox, not very democratic. " "You think it was terrible? " , could the Spanish Minister.
Relaunched the President, speaking in French, says: "It was very hard. There is a code of conduct which should not deviate. A candidate comes threaten walis [prefects] and the authorities to pay attention to their families in case of fraud, what does that mean? This is terrorism through the Television? ...
Bouteflika's campaign manager Sellal, beeing hackled and chased out most of towns..
Algerian presidential campaign ends on charges of "terrorism"
APRIL 13, 2014 AT 14:50
Benflis, Bouteflika's main rival, warned against the temptation to fraud. What unpopular outgoing president.
Ali Benflis at a meeting on April 5 in Batna, in northern Algeria. (AFP)
The campaign for the presidential election on Thursday in Algeria ends Sunday after violent exchanges, the incumbent President Abdelaziz Bouteflika accused of"terrorism" his main rival Ali Benflis, which has never ceased to denounce the risks of fraud.
Algerians go to the polls April 17 to elect their president in an election without a priori surprise, Bouteflika appears as the favorite despite his health problems that prevented him from conducting his campaign. His emissaries are responsible for closing the campaign, touting the "miracle" their champion "released in Algeria from darkness to light" . Benflis would meet his supporters in mid-afternoon at Municipal Stadium Rouiba (east).
Absent from the campaign began on March 23, Bouteflika has made it Saturday night in a tone quite unexpected during an audience granted to the head of Spanish diplomacy, Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo. In a weakly articulated, according to images broadcast by television voice, he accused Benflis have called for violence, even daring the term "terrorism" . "That candidate comes threaten walis (prefects) and authorities " , saying "pay attention to their families and their children in cases of fraud, what does that mean" , Bouteflika said to his host. It is "terrorism through television" , said Bouteflika, in observing that the French campaign was sometimes"lacked elegance" .
The President was referring to about Benflis Wednesday risk of electoral fraud."Fraud is haram (unlawful). Forgery and use of forgeries is haram. I address the walis, heads of daïras (sub-prefects): You have family, think about preserving " , he said. "Be vigilant" , was also launched at Benflis voters. "Those who are accustomed to deprive the word of the people, to divert his will want to keep their old habits of fraud" , he had said.
A few hours before the charge against President Benflis, management campaign Bouteflika was also accused of violence: "We note the continuation of violent behavior by hostile parties serene and transparent conduct of the campaign and for the presidential election, and denounce the perpetrators of this violence emanating from representatives Benflis. " In response, Benflis denounced text "incredibly violent" and "extremely serious" containing " defamatory " and "unfounded accusations" .
Mine fraud all electoral events in Algeria. A former prefect has also confessed to have performed in the past at the request of his superiors. The revelations of the former leader "shocked democratic opinion" , rebelled Sunday newspaper El Watan citing an "incurable disease" . "phenomenon experienced such a magnitude that now speaks almost with a certain About commonplace in the "party of fraud" consecrated as the first party in Algeria " , the paper added.
From the beginning of the campaign, Benflis, former Prime Minister knows the workings of the administration, warned that fraud would be his "main opponent"April 17th. For him, the fraud was the "winner" and democracy "loser" of the 2004 presidential election he was humiliated out with only 6% of the vote, second behind Bouteflika who had collected 85% in the first round.
Weakened by a stroke that took nearly three months of hospitalization in France last year, Bouteflika, 77 years, including 15 at the head of Algeria, following rehabilitation to recover all his faculties of speech and mobility.
ALGERIA:The electoral fraud, it's official
A former senior official acknowledged that ballot stuffing for the candidate system is part of the conduct of elections in Algeria.Damning revelations a few days before the presidential election on April 17.
Protest against a fourth term for the incumbent President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, April 6 at Tizi-Ouzou -AFP/Farouk Batiche
A first in Algeria! A former senior clerk state publicly acknowledges having participated and contributed to the electoral fraud. The former Wali of Oran, Bachir Frik said live on the set of a private television channel, Echorouk TV, it was used by security and military authorities throughout his career to promote the "candidate system ".
He admits he did everything in 1995 to win [full civil war] General Zeroual. To do this, he chaired a committee composed of representatives of the intelligence services, the DRS, the head of the military region and the national gendarmerie. Like all other walis, Bachir Frik has taken care to provide the candidate electoral system hotlines, support committees and all the necessary logistics. In short, it simply lifts the veil on the complicity of all devices in the Algerian state ballot stuffing and misuse of the votes of voters Algerians.
Same scenario in 1999: Bachir Frik was ordered to rig the election in his wilaya to save Abdelaziz Bouteflika. And gave him this order? A Ali Benflis, the same one who advocates change and transparency, Chief of Staff at the time and campaign manager Bouteflika.
A liar remains a liar
These revelations are bad, very bad. They confirm, certainly, that all Algerians have long known. But then, these truths are said in a contemptuous and humiliating for Algerians tone. We finally explains that our word has no value. Our voices are mere toys in the hands of a regime obsessed with survival. Our existence is hardly protocol in a country where everything is decided from above and through secret commissions where no one has the right to discuss the orientations given by the DRS and the military authorities.
These damning revelations come at a time when the Algerian regime promises concessions, transparency and a different future of this disturbing and gloomy past. How can you even tell us lies and contempt at this point our intelligence? How can you even ask us to believe in the sincerity of this scheme then it took until 2014 for it to be publicly telling us that all previous presidential elections were "a foregone conclusion"?And why in 2014, the same practices they not be renewed? A thief remains a thief. Remain a liar a liar. A cheater, even if it is his mea culpa, can never be trusted.
Justice is simply non-existent
This former wali explains very well the reasons for this electoral fraud: "It is in the interest of the State and the Nation." Yes, interest, theirs and ours forever. Nation, homeland, and their never ours. These decision-makers, senior officials of the DRS and the army, arrogate to themselves the right to define the interests of our country. Finally, one in which we live, love and cherish. But the interest of this country does not concern us. They clearly tell us. Is fraud, they cheat, it diverts your interest. It is the height of ignominy. It is as if a pervert rapes a woman to make him think he wanted to prove his true love. Was violated and we always violate us. Bachir Frik, this former wali, had at least the merit of telling us that we can not decide anything for our country.
And since everything is preordained, we must be silent and accept the rules of the game in the name of "the interest of the nation and the state," we must accept this electoral rape. Except in 2014, this speech is no longer tolerable. The posture of victimhood not unanimous Algerians.Many of them have good demand their right to respect, freedom and transparency in the management of state affairs.
Bachir Frik will certainly not called by our justice to investigate his revelations. Justice is simply non-existent. But it does not matter. A day will come when we will ourselves their judges and their court. And that day, you, rapists urns and voice of the voters, you're all condemned to perpetual disqualification and thrown into the dustbin of history.
The Barakat movement..
The ex integrist FIS party trying to reposition itself..
Seminar on the Algerian politics..
MONDAY, APRIL 14, 2014
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN[/paste:font]
04/12/2014 - 12:45
Bouteflika, grafitti, in "Abode of Chaos" Museum of Contemporary Art, Saint-Romain-au-Mont-d'Or © T. Ehrmann
Before the presidential election in Algeria, April 17, Christine Ockrent analyzes the political situation in the company of his guests, the very special nature of this phantom campaign and reported on the face Algeria AQIM and terrorism in . the Sahel with Benjamin Stora , historian, professor at the University Paris-13 , he recently published postcolonies Travel: Vietnam, Algeria, Morocco (Stock, 2012).
and Akram Belkaïd , essayist and journalist for Le Quotidien d'Oran. has just published Returns in Algeria: the emotional reunion with Algeria today(Carnets Nord, 2013).
and the phone from Morocco Djallil Lounnas , Assistant Professor Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane. His publications include "The Algerian strategy against Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb," Foreign Policy, Number 3, September 2013.
After Bouteflika"s supporter song , the opposants have theirs too..
[video]
Algerian presidential campaign ends in a very tense
The Monde.fr | 14/04/2014 at 11:42 • Updated 14/04/2014 at 12:04 |By Isabelle Mandraud
Was expected Sunday, April 13 at La Coupole, the great Olympic complex west of Algiers. It appeared yesterday on television. Throughout a campaign started on 23March, the outgoing president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 77 years old, a candidate for a fourth term after fifteen years at the head of the Algerian state, was not sent to his constituents.
Sunday ill, he left his team gathered in full force to animate the last meeting on his behalf before a giant portrait. The day before, however, the Algerians had confirmation of the very tense atmosphere and the climate of violence in which the campaign ends.
Portfolio >>: Algeria: the six presidential candidates
In a short two-minute excerpt published Saturday by the Algerian television, Bouteflika became receiving the Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo. Soon passed greetings, exchange filmed beginning with the words of the president: "For some time, it [the campaign] lacked elegance. At times there have been calls to violence, behaviors unorthodox, not very democratic. " "You think it was terrible? " , could the Spanish Minister.
Relaunched the President, speaking in French, says: "It was very hard. There is a code of conduct which should not deviate. A candidate comes threaten walis [prefects] and the authorities to pay attention to their families in case of fraud, what does that mean? This is terrorism through the Television? ...
Bouteflika's campaign manager Sellal, beeing hackled and chased out most of towns..
Algerian presidential campaign ends on charges of "terrorism"
APRIL 13, 2014 AT 14:50
Benflis, Bouteflika's main rival, warned against the temptation to fraud. What unpopular outgoing president.
Ali Benflis at a meeting on April 5 in Batna, in northern Algeria. (AFP)
The campaign for the presidential election on Thursday in Algeria ends Sunday after violent exchanges, the incumbent President Abdelaziz Bouteflika accused of"terrorism" his main rival Ali Benflis, which has never ceased to denounce the risks of fraud.
Algerians go to the polls April 17 to elect their president in an election without a priori surprise, Bouteflika appears as the favorite despite his health problems that prevented him from conducting his campaign. His emissaries are responsible for closing the campaign, touting the "miracle" their champion "released in Algeria from darkness to light" . Benflis would meet his supporters in mid-afternoon at Municipal Stadium Rouiba (east).
Absent from the campaign began on March 23, Bouteflika has made it Saturday night in a tone quite unexpected during an audience granted to the head of Spanish diplomacy, Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo. In a weakly articulated, according to images broadcast by television voice, he accused Benflis have called for violence, even daring the term "terrorism" . "That candidate comes threaten walis (prefects) and authorities " , saying "pay attention to their families and their children in cases of fraud, what does that mean" , Bouteflika said to his host. It is "terrorism through television" , said Bouteflika, in observing that the French campaign was sometimes"lacked elegance" .
The President was referring to about Benflis Wednesday risk of electoral fraud."Fraud is haram (unlawful). Forgery and use of forgeries is haram. I address the walis, heads of daïras (sub-prefects): You have family, think about preserving " , he said. "Be vigilant" , was also launched at Benflis voters. "Those who are accustomed to deprive the word of the people, to divert his will want to keep their old habits of fraud" , he had said.
A few hours before the charge against President Benflis, management campaign Bouteflika was also accused of violence: "We note the continuation of violent behavior by hostile parties serene and transparent conduct of the campaign and for the presidential election, and denounce the perpetrators of this violence emanating from representatives Benflis. " In response, Benflis denounced text "incredibly violent" and "extremely serious" containing " defamatory " and "unfounded accusations" .
Mine fraud all electoral events in Algeria. A former prefect has also confessed to have performed in the past at the request of his superiors. The revelations of the former leader "shocked democratic opinion" , rebelled Sunday newspaper El Watan citing an "incurable disease" . "phenomenon experienced such a magnitude that now speaks almost with a certain About commonplace in the "party of fraud" consecrated as the first party in Algeria " , the paper added.
From the beginning of the campaign, Benflis, former Prime Minister knows the workings of the administration, warned that fraud would be his "main opponent"April 17th. For him, the fraud was the "winner" and democracy "loser" of the 2004 presidential election he was humiliated out with only 6% of the vote, second behind Bouteflika who had collected 85% in the first round.
Weakened by a stroke that took nearly three months of hospitalization in France last year, Bouteflika, 77 years, including 15 at the head of Algeria, following rehabilitation to recover all his faculties of speech and mobility.
ALGERIA:The electoral fraud, it's official
A former senior official acknowledged that ballot stuffing for the candidate system is part of the conduct of elections in Algeria.Damning revelations a few days before the presidential election on April 17.
A first in Algeria! A former senior clerk state publicly acknowledges having participated and contributed to the electoral fraud. The former Wali of Oran, Bachir Frik said live on the set of a private television channel, Echorouk TV, it was used by security and military authorities throughout his career to promote the "candidate system ".
He admits he did everything in 1995 to win [full civil war] General Zeroual. To do this, he chaired a committee composed of representatives of the intelligence services, the DRS, the head of the military region and the national gendarmerie. Like all other walis, Bachir Frik has taken care to provide the candidate electoral system hotlines, support committees and all the necessary logistics. In short, it simply lifts the veil on the complicity of all devices in the Algerian state ballot stuffing and misuse of the votes of voters Algerians.
Same scenario in 1999: Bachir Frik was ordered to rig the election in his wilaya to save Abdelaziz Bouteflika. And gave him this order? A Ali Benflis, the same one who advocates change and transparency, Chief of Staff at the time and campaign manager Bouteflika.
A liar remains a liar
These revelations are bad, very bad. They confirm, certainly, that all Algerians have long known. But then, these truths are said in a contemptuous and humiliating for Algerians tone. We finally explains that our word has no value. Our voices are mere toys in the hands of a regime obsessed with survival. Our existence is hardly protocol in a country where everything is decided from above and through secret commissions where no one has the right to discuss the orientations given by the DRS and the military authorities.
These damning revelations come at a time when the Algerian regime promises concessions, transparency and a different future of this disturbing and gloomy past. How can you even tell us lies and contempt at this point our intelligence? How can you even ask us to believe in the sincerity of this scheme then it took until 2014 for it to be publicly telling us that all previous presidential elections were "a foregone conclusion"?And why in 2014, the same practices they not be renewed? A thief remains a thief. Remain a liar a liar. A cheater, even if it is his mea culpa, can never be trusted.
Justice is simply non-existent
This former wali explains very well the reasons for this electoral fraud: "It is in the interest of the State and the Nation." Yes, interest, theirs and ours forever. Nation, homeland, and their never ours. These decision-makers, senior officials of the DRS and the army, arrogate to themselves the right to define the interests of our country. Finally, one in which we live, love and cherish. But the interest of this country does not concern us. They clearly tell us. Is fraud, they cheat, it diverts your interest. It is the height of ignominy. It is as if a pervert rapes a woman to make him think he wanted to prove his true love. Was violated and we always violate us. Bachir Frik, this former wali, had at least the merit of telling us that we can not decide anything for our country.
And since everything is preordained, we must be silent and accept the rules of the game in the name of "the interest of the nation and the state," we must accept this electoral rape. Except in 2014, this speech is no longer tolerable. The posture of victimhood not unanimous Algerians.Many of them have good demand their right to respect, freedom and transparency in the management of state affairs.
Bachir Frik will certainly not called by our justice to investigate his revelations. Justice is simply non-existent. But it does not matter. A day will come when we will ourselves their judges and their court. And that day, you, rapists urns and voice of the voters, you're all condemned to perpetual disqualification and thrown into the dustbin of history.
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Presidential elections in Algeria: Violence, voting, boycotts, "Fitna," the deluge and media superstar (VIDEOS)
HuffPost Maghreb | By Tahir MalikPublished:04/14/2014 1:39 p.m. EST
The campaign for the presidential election is over, Sunday, April 13, amid tensions and exchanges of accusations between the camp Abdelaziz Bouteflika and the Ali Benflis .
Contrary to what is suggested by the staff of the campaign, Bouteflika has not made an appearance at the last meeting, held at the Dome of July 5.
Ministers campaigning for President had unwisely hinted that he might be present. As Facebook unveils post Youssef Zerarka Algerian journalist based abroad who humorously titled "Bouteflika was the dome, Oscar Niemeyer has seen."
Niemeyer, who died at the age of 104 years, is the architect of the dome (sports hall) where the rally was. A suggestion that the President seeking a fourth term is no longer visible to those in the afterlife.
Photo of the dome
Bouteflika, affected by the effects of a stroke and whose ability to ensure his load is challenged by opponents, was limited to television appearances. By meeting the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, he complained of "terrorism" of his opponent. It recurred yesterday, receiving Lakhdar Brahimi, the Algerian yet the UN special envoy to Syria.
Dissemination of sequences where Bouteflika campaigned discussing foreign representatives continues to generate controversy:
"The most absurd though is that the communication services of the Presidency have held to disseminate to the public channel. As if the President to speak to the Algerians had to go through a stranger! We are no longer in communication error . We are in a serious loss of meaning " we read in the editorial Quotidien d'Oran.
El Watan did not appreciate the "ambiguous visit" Lakhdar Brahimi.
"Even if Lakhdar Brahimi first came to Algiers for family reasons, his meeting with the President is not publicized to any point in the campaign" The Journal notes.
So Abdelmalek Sellal, surrounded by ministers and party leaders who support who chaired the last meeting. Announcing that "hogra is finished!"
With the risk of receiving the mockery to the fact we are talking about a candidate who is in power for fifteen years ... without end hogra.
At the end of this meeting, Maghreb Emergent recorded the first victim of this campaign, the young Akram Haddouche killed in the town of Zeralda by a supporter of Bouteflika.
Ali Benflis held its last meeting in Rouiba, in the eastern suburbs of Algiers. He responded to the accusations of violence and terrorism Bouteflika and his supporters.He sees a sign of panic. He again warned that he will not remain silent in case of fraud.
"Those who used to take power and who think and believe that they can defraud know that the stability of the country passes through a credible election. Election fraud is a red line. I will not be silent when vote rigging and whoever defraud fully bear the consequences. "
And Bouteflika supporters who say "Accept us or is it the deluge!" he replied: "There will be neither you nor the deluge!"
Demos, a fitna
The hours after the vote will they eventful? That is the question.
Bouteflika camp does not stop to warn against the "street" and fitna.
Salafists came to the rescue by issuing a fatwa of Sheikh Farkous . Whereas democracy is shirk (polytheist), the text concludes that practices such as demonstrations, sit-ins or strikes, traditions are "infidels."
Review radically rejected by Ali Belhadj, the former number of Hi Islamic Front, which stated that the use of peaceful demonstrations in the streets is not a "fitna".(See video below)
He accuses those who issue fatwas against those rights recognized by the Sharia, national and international laws to be true instigators of Fitna. Ali Belhadj nevertheless recommends taking precautions to avoid that introduces the "baltaguiyas" to create violence.
A "star" is born
During this campaign, audiovisual media, public and private, were largely in favor of Bouteflika. But the campaign was heavily heckled by the emergence of widely hostile networks fourth term. Calls to boycott elections are numerous. And borrow original voice as misuse of mega-tube Pharell Williams, Happy, who becomes "Matrohch tvoti" (not going to vote)
Networks and for very bad reasons, a "star" of the press was born. This is Habiba Mahmoudi, journalist Ennahar TV, media totally committed to Bouteflika4, and author of an anthology "Mr. Benflis if you win elections, you accept defeat?".
Its very aggressive way of asking questions to the candidates earned him assassins comments. She relapsed with Ali Fawzi Rebaine. She fell on bone.
We probably forget the other candidates, but Habiba Mahmoudi is already a "superstar", a model of what journalism should not be.
At the end of this meeting, Maghreb Emergent recorded the first victim of this campaign, the young Akram Haddouche killed in the town of Zeralda by a supporter of Bouteflika.
Ali Benflis held its last meeting in Rouiba, in the eastern suburbs of Algiers. He responded to the accusations of violence and terrorism Bouteflika and his supporters.He sees a sign of panic. He again warned that he will not remain silent in case of fraud.
"Those who used to take power and who think and believe that they can defraud know that the stability of the country passes through a credible election. Election fraud is a red line. I will not be silent when vote rigging and whoever defraud fully bear the consequences. "
And Bouteflika supporters who say "Accept us or is it the deluge!" he replied: "There will be neither you nor the deluge!"
Demos, a fitna
The hours after the vote will they eventful? That is the question.
Bouteflika camp does not stop to warn against the "street" and fitna.
Salafists came to the rescue by issuing a fatwa of Sheikh Farkous . Whereas democracy is shirk (polytheist), the text concludes that practices such as demonstrations, sit-ins or strikes, traditions are "infidels."
Review radically rejected by Ali Belhadj, the former number of Hi Islamic Front, which stated that the use of peaceful demonstrations in the streets is not a "fitna".(See video below)
He accuses those who issue fatwas against those rights recognized by the Sharia, national and international laws to be true instigators of Fitna. Ali Belhadj nevertheless recommends taking precautions to avoid that introduces the "baltaguiyas" to create violence.
A "star" is born
During this campaign, audiovisual media, public and private, were largely in favor of Bouteflika. But the campaign was heavily heckled by the emergence of widely hostile networks fourth term. Calls to boycott elections are numerous. And borrow original voice as misuse of mega-tube Pharell Williams, Happy, who becomes "Matrohch tvoti" (not going to vote)
Networks and for very bad reasons, a "star" of the press was born. This is Habiba Mahmoudi, journalist Ennahar TV, media totally committed to Bouteflika4, and author of an anthology "Mr. Benflis if you win elections, you accept defeat?".
Its very aggressive way of asking questions to the candidates earned him assassins comments. She relapsed with Ali Fawzi Rebaine. She fell on bone.
We probably forget the other candidates, but Habiba Mahmoudi is already a "superstar", a model of what journalism should not be.
ALGERIA. Presidential: in front of a ghost Bouteflika ,Benflis wants to believe
By Sarah Diffalah
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Posted on 14-04-2014 at 10:52Updated at 24:28
They had left the heavy artillery. For 22 days, the six candidates for election presidential Algerian April 17 did not skimp on resources in a campaign that ended Sunday, April 13 and which is mounted in tension in the home straight. Algerians scroll saw in their wilaya (department) applicants for the highest office determined, including former Prime Minister Ali Benflis, despite the predominant election a foregone conclusion that would incumbent President Abdelaziz Bouteflika feeling, to re-enlist a fourth term.
In the center of Algiers, the visual advantage is clear for the latter whose posters and placards XXL multiplied by tens adorn the facades of buildings. Presence also noticed the absence of the principal applicant who, forced by illness, never appeared in public despite a false suspense fueled by his campaign team. Net benefit to Abdelaziz Bouteflika also browse the huge territory to meet Algerians. It is not less than seven persons Abdelmalek Sellal Ouyahia Abdelaziz Belkhadem Amara Benyounès Abdelkader Bensalah Amar Saadani, and Mohamed Larbi Ould Khelifa, who did the job across the country. Dozens of buses have been chartered to lead supporters of continuity, so Bouteflika.
Bouteflika deified
For the last meeting in Algiers in the great hall of the dome Boudiaf near the stage of July 5, above which a giant poster of Abdelaziz Bouteflika attached to an inflatable balloon, Abdelmalek Sellal, former Prime Minister plane now campaign manager, faced for 30 minutes to an hour before heated by Algerian tubes resumed in public choir. The disappointment of not seeing their "rais" was short-lived. Some, indeed, were just there to "let off steam". Accompanied into the room by traditional musicians, ululating, vuvuzelas, singing, rough placards, Abdelmalek Sellal chanted the name of a man deified and fantasized.
The gratin of public enterprises and trade unions on the other hand are present. Sonatrach, Neftal and UGTA highlighted their frameworks and most diverse associations. "Abdelaziz Bouteflika deserves this because for 15 years he worked for youth and encouraged the practice of female sport. Today, he can not be there it does not matter, his brain works Again! " Leila ensures Belhadi 32 years and member of the "athletes Sonatrach." Same story at Fatima Zohra, 45 who traveled from Tiaret more than 300 kilometers from Algiers. "He worked hard to bring peace, we do not want our country to become like Libya, Syria or Egypt."
Belmokhtar Reda, 34, sat back on the platform. "I came to get an idea, but its program is not new, it is the continuity Things have argued with him.. We have more tranquility, staff housing were awarded as well as lots of ground. We could receive up to 700,000 dinars [about 7,000 euros, Ed] to add another floor to our house or 300,000 dinars [about 3,000 euros] to renovate, "he insists. "And then he especially set up the device Anseg credit, assistance to help us create our company." Like most supporters, the absence of the candidate does not mind, saying it is not a person but a government team.
It sits, it is surrounded. The other candidates, Abdelaziz Belaid, Moussa Touati, Ali Fawzi Rebaine and Louisa Hanoune are fake candidates pawns. As for Ali Benflis, it is too surrounded by Islamists. We do not want to go back. The solution is not Boutef or Benflis, this is common sense. "
Outside, the party continues, the party cadres self-congratulating. Séfouane Ahmed, Algiers elected member of the National Transitional Council assumes no scrolls and the mixed record of the 15 years of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. "We could have done better, it's true. But the transition will be smooth."
Ali Benflis, change
In the opposing camp, the former Prime Minister Ali Benflis by its position credible challenger, unsheathed his best weapons of communication: an airplane and cars for journalists, a team of seasoned campaign, led by the energetic Lotfi Boumghar, and very close, like Kamal Bouchama, former Minister of Youth and Sports, as from Ali Benflis, the FLN (National Liberation Front) party in power. Another strong point that his rival could have: proximity.
"The best of the debates is that I do with the people. I walked the 48 provinces of Algeria. I started the extreme south, and I had people with a fruitful discussion on the fate of these untapped regions, which are not connected to other cities by modern means of communication but have enormous wealth, "says Ali Benflis. "If ever pass my project, I will meet their expectations and give them what they want: a democratic state, against the powers, young people who may speak and youth to whom I give the power of decision local and national level. "
Saturday was the penultimate round of heats before the elections with three provinces of the west, Relizane, Mostaganem and Oran, to visit. Three bastions "Bouteflika." But yesterday scalded by unexpected success Khenchela in the east, Ali Benflis there ventured light heart, serene mind.Candidate in 2004, he has now taken the pitch. A Relizane, the tone is set, farm craze is at the rendezvous. For him, a single credo: change. An effective formula in a country plagued by corruption and unemployment.
"The current system comes to an end, he is tired, it is ending. This system has not understood it became a minority and he faces a world of young people," said Ali Benflis.
Youth is the solution of the Algerian problem, and if we do not take into account their aspirations, this youth could become the problem. "
The passage of unmarked cars in the meeting rooms, youth and meets the challenge, under applause.
Alchemy seems to take. In Oran, Sarah came with her brother Mohktar. At 19, she will vote for the first time. "He is a man of conviction. He left the FLN because it no longer corresponded to its principles. Abdelaziz Bouteflika has not brought democracy. Can not manifest, the TV channels are controlled by the government. It Oran said that, people live well, but in the El Hamri neighborhood they live in poverty and there is no security. Bouteflika If happens, nothing will change. "
His brother, architect of 27 years will vote for the first time too. "Benflis, for me it is a default choice, but I think it can reverse the situation. If it loses with 30 or 35%, this will be a gap that opens. Opposition is today ' Today atomized could ally with him and become an attractive force after April 17. "
A second round?
No doubt, Ali Benflis has garnered opportunity to establish itself as a dangerous opponent Abdelaziz Bouteflika. A few days before the election, some herald as a potential detonator major riots, he also managed to capitalize thanks to missteps of his rival, as this bad joke on Chaouis populations Aures, Abdelmalek Sellal.
For many observers end connoisseurs of Algeria , panic blew into the camp Bouteflika. The same day, Abdelaziz Bouteflika , who hosted the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, accused his opponent of "terrorism" and cause trouble that marred tour of its representatives. Remarks deemed offensive, coming close a chaotic campaign and gave dreams of second round Ali Benflis. Scenario - hard to imagine - but that would be unprecedented in Algerian history.
Sarah Diffalah to Algiers , Le Nouvel Observateur
HuffPost Maghreb | By Tahir MalikPublished:04/14/2014 1:39 p.m. EST
The campaign for the presidential election is over, Sunday, April 13, amid tensions and exchanges of accusations between the camp Abdelaziz Bouteflika and the Ali Benflis .
Contrary to what is suggested by the staff of the campaign, Bouteflika has not made an appearance at the last meeting, held at the Dome of July 5.
Ministers campaigning for President had unwisely hinted that he might be present. As Facebook unveils post Youssef Zerarka Algerian journalist based abroad who humorously titled "Bouteflika was the dome, Oscar Niemeyer has seen."
Niemeyer, who died at the age of 104 years, is the architect of the dome (sports hall) where the rally was. A suggestion that the President seeking a fourth term is no longer visible to those in the afterlife.
Photo of the dome
Bouteflika, affected by the effects of a stroke and whose ability to ensure his load is challenged by opponents, was limited to television appearances. By meeting the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, he complained of "terrorism" of his opponent. It recurred yesterday, receiving Lakhdar Brahimi, the Algerian yet the UN special envoy to Syria.
Dissemination of sequences where Bouteflika campaigned discussing foreign representatives continues to generate controversy:
"The most absurd though is that the communication services of the Presidency have held to disseminate to the public channel. As if the President to speak to the Algerians had to go through a stranger! We are no longer in communication error . We are in a serious loss of meaning " we read in the editorial Quotidien d'Oran.
El Watan did not appreciate the "ambiguous visit" Lakhdar Brahimi.
"Even if Lakhdar Brahimi first came to Algiers for family reasons, his meeting with the President is not publicized to any point in the campaign" The Journal notes.
So Abdelmalek Sellal, surrounded by ministers and party leaders who support who chaired the last meeting. Announcing that "hogra is finished!"
With the risk of receiving the mockery to the fact we are talking about a candidate who is in power for fifteen years ... without end hogra.
At the end of this meeting, Maghreb Emergent recorded the first victim of this campaign, the young Akram Haddouche killed in the town of Zeralda by a supporter of Bouteflika.
Ali Benflis held its last meeting in Rouiba, in the eastern suburbs of Algiers. He responded to the accusations of violence and terrorism Bouteflika and his supporters.He sees a sign of panic. He again warned that he will not remain silent in case of fraud.
"Those who used to take power and who think and believe that they can defraud know that the stability of the country passes through a credible election. Election fraud is a red line. I will not be silent when vote rigging and whoever defraud fully bear the consequences. "
And Bouteflika supporters who say "Accept us or is it the deluge!" he replied: "There will be neither you nor the deluge!"
Demos, a fitna
The hours after the vote will they eventful? That is the question.
Bouteflika camp does not stop to warn against the "street" and fitna.
Salafists came to the rescue by issuing a fatwa of Sheikh Farkous . Whereas democracy is shirk (polytheist), the text concludes that practices such as demonstrations, sit-ins or strikes, traditions are "infidels."
Review radically rejected by Ali Belhadj, the former number of Hi Islamic Front, which stated that the use of peaceful demonstrations in the streets is not a "fitna".(See video below)
He accuses those who issue fatwas against those rights recognized by the Sharia, national and international laws to be true instigators of Fitna. Ali Belhadj nevertheless recommends taking precautions to avoid that introduces the "baltaguiyas" to create violence.
A "star" is born
During this campaign, audiovisual media, public and private, were largely in favor of Bouteflika. But the campaign was heavily heckled by the emergence of widely hostile networks fourth term. Calls to boycott elections are numerous. And borrow original voice as misuse of mega-tube Pharell Williams, Happy, who becomes "Matrohch tvoti" (not going to vote)
Networks and for very bad reasons, a "star" of the press was born. This is Habiba Mahmoudi, journalist Ennahar TV, media totally committed to Bouteflika4, and author of an anthology "Mr. Benflis if you win elections, you accept defeat?".
Its very aggressive way of asking questions to the candidates earned him assassins comments. She relapsed with Ali Fawzi Rebaine. She fell on bone.
We probably forget the other candidates, but Habiba Mahmoudi is already a "superstar", a model of what journalism should not be.
At the end of this meeting, Maghreb Emergent recorded the first victim of this campaign, the young Akram Haddouche killed in the town of Zeralda by a supporter of Bouteflika.
Ali Benflis held its last meeting in Rouiba, in the eastern suburbs of Algiers. He responded to the accusations of violence and terrorism Bouteflika and his supporters.He sees a sign of panic. He again warned that he will not remain silent in case of fraud.
"Those who used to take power and who think and believe that they can defraud know that the stability of the country passes through a credible election. Election fraud is a red line. I will not be silent when vote rigging and whoever defraud fully bear the consequences. "
And Bouteflika supporters who say "Accept us or is it the deluge!" he replied: "There will be neither you nor the deluge!"
Demos, a fitna
The hours after the vote will they eventful? That is the question.
Bouteflika camp does not stop to warn against the "street" and fitna.
Salafists came to the rescue by issuing a fatwa of Sheikh Farkous . Whereas democracy is shirk (polytheist), the text concludes that practices such as demonstrations, sit-ins or strikes, traditions are "infidels."
Review radically rejected by Ali Belhadj, the former number of Hi Islamic Front, which stated that the use of peaceful demonstrations in the streets is not a "fitna".(See video below)
He accuses those who issue fatwas against those rights recognized by the Sharia, national and international laws to be true instigators of Fitna. Ali Belhadj nevertheless recommends taking precautions to avoid that introduces the "baltaguiyas" to create violence.
A "star" is born
During this campaign, audiovisual media, public and private, were largely in favor of Bouteflika. But the campaign was heavily heckled by the emergence of widely hostile networks fourth term. Calls to boycott elections are numerous. And borrow original voice as misuse of mega-tube Pharell Williams, Happy, who becomes "Matrohch tvoti" (not going to vote)
Networks and for very bad reasons, a "star" of the press was born. This is Habiba Mahmoudi, journalist Ennahar TV, media totally committed to Bouteflika4, and author of an anthology "Mr. Benflis if you win elections, you accept defeat?".
Its very aggressive way of asking questions to the candidates earned him assassins comments. She relapsed with Ali Fawzi Rebaine. She fell on bone.
We probably forget the other candidates, but Habiba Mahmoudi is already a "superstar", a model of what journalism should not be.
ALGERIA. Presidential: in front of a ghost Bouteflika ,Benflis wants to believe
By Sarah Diffalah
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Posted on 14-04-2014 at 10:52Updated at 24:28
They had left the heavy artillery. For 22 days, the six candidates for election presidential Algerian April 17 did not skimp on resources in a campaign that ended Sunday, April 13 and which is mounted in tension in the home straight. Algerians scroll saw in their wilaya (department) applicants for the highest office determined, including former Prime Minister Ali Benflis, despite the predominant election a foregone conclusion that would incumbent President Abdelaziz Bouteflika feeling, to re-enlist a fourth term.
In the center of Algiers, the visual advantage is clear for the latter whose posters and placards XXL multiplied by tens adorn the facades of buildings. Presence also noticed the absence of the principal applicant who, forced by illness, never appeared in public despite a false suspense fueled by his campaign team. Net benefit to Abdelaziz Bouteflika also browse the huge territory to meet Algerians. It is not less than seven persons Abdelmalek Sellal Ouyahia Abdelaziz Belkhadem Amara Benyounès Abdelkader Bensalah Amar Saadani, and Mohamed Larbi Ould Khelifa, who did the job across the country. Dozens of buses have been chartered to lead supporters of continuity, so Bouteflika.
Bouteflika deified
For the last meeting in Algiers in the great hall of the dome Boudiaf near the stage of July 5, above which a giant poster of Abdelaziz Bouteflika attached to an inflatable balloon, Abdelmalek Sellal, former Prime Minister plane now campaign manager, faced for 30 minutes to an hour before heated by Algerian tubes resumed in public choir. The disappointment of not seeing their "rais" was short-lived. Some, indeed, were just there to "let off steam". Accompanied into the room by traditional musicians, ululating, vuvuzelas, singing, rough placards, Abdelmalek Sellal chanted the name of a man deified and fantasized.
The gratin of public enterprises and trade unions on the other hand are present. Sonatrach, Neftal and UGTA highlighted their frameworks and most diverse associations. "Abdelaziz Bouteflika deserves this because for 15 years he worked for youth and encouraged the practice of female sport. Today, he can not be there it does not matter, his brain works Again! " Leila ensures Belhadi 32 years and member of the "athletes Sonatrach." Same story at Fatima Zohra, 45 who traveled from Tiaret more than 300 kilometers from Algiers. "He worked hard to bring peace, we do not want our country to become like Libya, Syria or Egypt."
Belmokhtar Reda, 34, sat back on the platform. "I came to get an idea, but its program is not new, it is the continuity Things have argued with him.. We have more tranquility, staff housing were awarded as well as lots of ground. We could receive up to 700,000 dinars [about 7,000 euros, Ed] to add another floor to our house or 300,000 dinars [about 3,000 euros] to renovate, "he insists. "And then he especially set up the device Anseg credit, assistance to help us create our company." Like most supporters, the absence of the candidate does not mind, saying it is not a person but a government team.
It sits, it is surrounded. The other candidates, Abdelaziz Belaid, Moussa Touati, Ali Fawzi Rebaine and Louisa Hanoune are fake candidates pawns. As for Ali Benflis, it is too surrounded by Islamists. We do not want to go back. The solution is not Boutef or Benflis, this is common sense. "
Outside, the party continues, the party cadres self-congratulating. Séfouane Ahmed, Algiers elected member of the National Transitional Council assumes no scrolls and the mixed record of the 15 years of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. "We could have done better, it's true. But the transition will be smooth."
Ali Benflis, change
In the opposing camp, the former Prime Minister Ali Benflis by its position credible challenger, unsheathed his best weapons of communication: an airplane and cars for journalists, a team of seasoned campaign, led by the energetic Lotfi Boumghar, and very close, like Kamal Bouchama, former Minister of Youth and Sports, as from Ali Benflis, the FLN (National Liberation Front) party in power. Another strong point that his rival could have: proximity.
"The best of the debates is that I do with the people. I walked the 48 provinces of Algeria. I started the extreme south, and I had people with a fruitful discussion on the fate of these untapped regions, which are not connected to other cities by modern means of communication but have enormous wealth, "says Ali Benflis. "If ever pass my project, I will meet their expectations and give them what they want: a democratic state, against the powers, young people who may speak and youth to whom I give the power of decision local and national level. "
Saturday was the penultimate round of heats before the elections with three provinces of the west, Relizane, Mostaganem and Oran, to visit. Three bastions "Bouteflika." But yesterday scalded by unexpected success Khenchela in the east, Ali Benflis there ventured light heart, serene mind.Candidate in 2004, he has now taken the pitch. A Relizane, the tone is set, farm craze is at the rendezvous. For him, a single credo: change. An effective formula in a country plagued by corruption and unemployment.
"The current system comes to an end, he is tired, it is ending. This system has not understood it became a minority and he faces a world of young people," said Ali Benflis.
Youth is the solution of the Algerian problem, and if we do not take into account their aspirations, this youth could become the problem. "
The passage of unmarked cars in the meeting rooms, youth and meets the challenge, under applause.
Alchemy seems to take. In Oran, Sarah came with her brother Mohktar. At 19, she will vote for the first time. "He is a man of conviction. He left the FLN because it no longer corresponded to its principles. Abdelaziz Bouteflika has not brought democracy. Can not manifest, the TV channels are controlled by the government. It Oran said that, people live well, but in the El Hamri neighborhood they live in poverty and there is no security. Bouteflika If happens, nothing will change. "
His brother, architect of 27 years will vote for the first time too. "Benflis, for me it is a default choice, but I think it can reverse the situation. If it loses with 30 or 35%, this will be a gap that opens. Opposition is today ' Today atomized could ally with him and become an attractive force after April 17. "
A second round?
No doubt, Ali Benflis has garnered opportunity to establish itself as a dangerous opponent Abdelaziz Bouteflika. A few days before the election, some herald as a potential detonator major riots, he also managed to capitalize thanks to missteps of his rival, as this bad joke on Chaouis populations Aures, Abdelmalek Sellal.
For many observers end connoisseurs of Algeria , panic blew into the camp Bouteflika. The same day, Abdelaziz Bouteflika , who hosted the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, accused his opponent of "terrorism" and cause trouble that marred tour of its representatives. Remarks deemed offensive, coming close a chaotic campaign and gave dreams of second round Ali Benflis. Scenario - hard to imagine - but that would be unprecedented in Algerian history.
Sarah Diffalah to Algiers , Le Nouvel Observateur
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Barakat projects beyond April 17
the 04.14.14 | 3:16 p.m.
Barakat to sue Abdelmalek Sellal, Amara Benyounes, Abdellah Ghelamellah and private television Numidia News.
Barakat movement will continue its fight regardless of the outcome of the presidential election on April 17. This is, in essence, what emerges from the press conference hosted by the movement's leaders on Monday in the offices of the daily News in Algiers Algeria. "presidential election allows the system in place to stay in power. These elections are an affront to the martyrs and contempt against the people. Barakat continue to fight after April 17 for the establishment of a society of freedom, social justice and the rehabilitation of citizenship, "said, by way of preamble, Samir Belarbi, an active member of the movement. The same speaker said that Barakat has not been contacted by the front or boycott by the FFS to participate in political processes . As the candidate Benflis, "it has to bear the consequences of its participation in the electoral farce," said Belarbi in response to the question whether Barakat plans to conduct joint activities with the candidate in case of diversion of votes. Mutspaha Benfodil said Barakat is willing to work with "all those who are working for change." He stressed that "Barakat is not an insurgency." Amira Bouraoui, the figurehead of the movement, said that "the departure of the system is the first solution to the Algerian crisis." Abdelghani Badi denounced the smear campaign that targeted several members of Barakat, accused of involvement in a conspiracy against Algeria sponsored by foreign countries. These charges are "defamation" members Brakat are punished by the penal code, has he added, announcing lawsuits against officials in power and media relay. Are involved in these lawsuits, Abdelmalek Sellal Amara Benyounes and Abdellah Ghelamellah well as private TV News Numidia, according Abdelgahni Badi. The latter, a lawyer by profession, has revealed that the judicial proceedings against officials Bouteflika will be initiated aware of the next week. Abdelghani Badi considered that "the foreign hand is the system in place." He cited the case of the head of state, "Abdelaziz Bouteflika (who) complained to the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs about overtaking on the campaign instead address the people about Ghardaia burning ". Barakat movement has organized since its inception in early March 17 sit-in protest in Algiers which 7 and the rest in 9 other wilaya across the country. A "very positive" assessment, say leaders Barakat planning to organize another rally Wednesday, April 16 at the Central FCC Algiers, 16 hours.
Video. Sellal leaves the set of the show "Controversial"
Written by Editorial El Watan 2014
Abdelmalek Sellal on the set of'' emissionPhoto DR
The campaign manager Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Abdelmalek Sellal left the plateau of Controversial , presented by Khaled Drareni on Dzair TV channel on Sunday 14 April. The sequence was edited out.
According to our information, Abdelmalek Sellal abandoned the tray when the reporter asked him at the end of the show: "You told Dome that Abdelaziz Bouteflika was a" gift from God ". Is this-that you do not too much? "Do not wish to answer the question, the former Prime Minister withdrew his microphone and stormed out of the registration plate.
During the show, the representative Abdelaziz Bouteflika gave its opinion on the progress of this new campaign: "There were seven to campaign to show the consensus revolves around our candidate." Asked about some disrupted or canceled meetings, he said: "Millions of people have followed us contrary to what has been peddled. The meeting of Bejaia has been avoided and not canceled, the room was full. Everything else is strictly well ". "It is the people who bear the balance of the President and with pride," he said. According to him, "Algeria is constitutionally a modern country."Referring to the proposed constitutional amendment, he added: "The Vice President has not been formally addressed, return to the limitation of mandates is a possibility."
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Video. Sellal leaves the set of the show "Controversial"
Written by Editorial El Watan 2014
Abdelmalek Sellal on the set of'' emissionPhoto DR
The campaign manager Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Abdelmalek Sellal left the plateau of Controversial issue, presented by Khaled Drareni on Dzair TV channel on Sunday 14 April. The sequence was edited out.
According to our information, Abdelmalek Sellal abandoned the tray when the reporter asked him at the end of the show: "You told Dome that Abdelaziz Bouteflika was a" gift from God ". Is this-that you do not too much? "Do not wish to answer the question, the former Prime Minister withdrew his microphone and stormed out of the registration plate.
During the show, the representative Abdelaziz Bouteflika gave its opinion on the progress of this new campaign: "There were seven to campaign to show the consensus revolves around our candidate." Asked about some disrupted or canceled meetings, he said: "Millions of people have followed us contrary to what has been peddled. The meeting of Bejaia has been avoided and not canceled, the room was full. Everything else is strictly well ". "It is the people who bear the balance of the President and with pride," he said. According to him, "Algeria is constitutionally a modern country."Referring to the proposed constitutional amendment, he added: "The Vice President has not been formally addressed, return to the limitation of mandates is a possibility."
Hassiba Hadjoudja
the 04.14.14 | 3:16 p.m.
Barakat to sue Abdelmalek Sellal, Amara Benyounes, Abdellah Ghelamellah and private television Numidia News.
Barakat movement will continue its fight regardless of the outcome of the presidential election on April 17. This is, in essence, what emerges from the press conference hosted by the movement's leaders on Monday in the offices of the daily News in Algiers Algeria. "presidential election allows the system in place to stay in power. These elections are an affront to the martyrs and contempt against the people. Barakat continue to fight after April 17 for the establishment of a society of freedom, social justice and the rehabilitation of citizenship, "said, by way of preamble, Samir Belarbi, an active member of the movement. The same speaker said that Barakat has not been contacted by the front or boycott by the FFS to participate in political processes . As the candidate Benflis, "it has to bear the consequences of its participation in the electoral farce," said Belarbi in response to the question whether Barakat plans to conduct joint activities with the candidate in case of diversion of votes. Mutspaha Benfodil said Barakat is willing to work with "all those who are working for change." He stressed that "Barakat is not an insurgency." Amira Bouraoui, the figurehead of the movement, said that "the departure of the system is the first solution to the Algerian crisis." Abdelghani Badi denounced the smear campaign that targeted several members of Barakat, accused of involvement in a conspiracy against Algeria sponsored by foreign countries. These charges are "defamation" members Brakat are punished by the penal code, has he added, announcing lawsuits against officials in power and media relay. Are involved in these lawsuits, Abdelmalek Sellal Amara Benyounes and Abdellah Ghelamellah well as private TV News Numidia, according Abdelgahni Badi. The latter, a lawyer by profession, has revealed that the judicial proceedings against officials Bouteflika will be initiated aware of the next week. Abdelghani Badi considered that "the foreign hand is the system in place." He cited the case of the head of state, "Abdelaziz Bouteflika (who) complained to the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs about overtaking on the campaign instead address the people about Ghardaia burning ". Barakat movement has organized since its inception in early March 17 sit-in protest in Algiers which 7 and the rest in 9 other wilaya across the country. A "very positive" assessment, say leaders Barakat planning to organize another rally Wednesday, April 16 at the Central FCC Algiers, 16 hours.
Video. Sellal leaves the set of the show "Controversial"
Written by Editorial El Watan 2014
Abdelmalek Sellal on the set of'' emissionPhoto DRThe campaign manager Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Abdelmalek Sellal left the plateau of Controversial , presented by Khaled Drareni on Dzair TV channel on Sunday 14 April. The sequence was edited out.
According to our information, Abdelmalek Sellal abandoned the tray when the reporter asked him at the end of the show: "You told Dome that Abdelaziz Bouteflika was a" gift from God ". Is this-that you do not too much? "Do not wish to answer the question, the former Prime Minister withdrew his microphone and stormed out of the registration plate.
During the show, the representative Abdelaziz Bouteflika gave its opinion on the progress of this new campaign: "There were seven to campaign to show the consensus revolves around our candidate." Asked about some disrupted or canceled meetings, he said: "Millions of people have followed us contrary to what has been peddled. The meeting of Bejaia has been avoided and not canceled, the room was full. Everything else is strictly well ". "It is the people who bear the balance of the President and with pride," he said. According to him, "Algeria is constitutionally a modern country."Referring to the proposed constitutional amendment, he added: "The Vice President has not been formally addressed, return to the limitation of mandates is a possibility."
Hassiba Hadjoudja
Video. Sellal leaves the set of the show "Controversial"
Written by Editorial El Watan 2014
Abdelmalek Sellal on the set of'' emissionPhoto DRThe campaign manager Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Abdelmalek Sellal left the plateau of Controversial issue, presented by Khaled Drareni on Dzair TV channel on Sunday 14 April. The sequence was edited out.
According to our information, Abdelmalek Sellal abandoned the tray when the reporter asked him at the end of the show: "You told Dome that Abdelaziz Bouteflika was a" gift from God ". Is this-that you do not too much? "Do not wish to answer the question, the former Prime Minister withdrew his microphone and stormed out of the registration plate.
During the show, the representative Abdelaziz Bouteflika gave its opinion on the progress of this new campaign: "There were seven to campaign to show the consensus revolves around our candidate." Asked about some disrupted or canceled meetings, he said: "Millions of people have followed us contrary to what has been peddled. The meeting of Bejaia has been avoided and not canceled, the room was full. Everything else is strictly well ". "It is the people who bear the balance of the President and with pride," he said. According to him, "Algeria is constitutionally a modern country."Referring to the proposed constitutional amendment, he added: "The Vice President has not been formally addressed, return to the limitation of mandates is a possibility."
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Between alarmism and the risk of chaos: Three Scenarios after the election
ARTICLE | APRIL 15, 2014 -. 9:39
The presidential election has revived national politics in a coma for fifteen years. Sid-Ali/New Press
At least forty-eight hours a crucial appointment, uncertainty and fear remain the watchwords in all the statements of politicians and commentators, but also in all public discussions where the cruel memories of a bloody country have suddenly substituted for passionate and exciting controversy that fueled the campaign for three weeks. I must say that the fears have grown since the outcry officially launched by President candidate who chose the last days of the campaign to emerge from its lethargy and give his instructions to the camera. The first is to demonize the main opponent to the death that threatens to win the election, if unfortunately the levers of fraud could not work as expected. Immediate relay, political and media, were quick to run with ever greater zeal, and using propaganda to accuse Benflis Ali and his supporters to prepare an insurrection in the announcement of results in the assumption, well understood, a defeat that would badly digested by them.
Worst Case Scenario Some media in the pay of the presidential clan, pushing the impertinence to a climax, do not hesitate to speak of armed militias who expect instructions to sow chaos. That said, a disaster scenario is not ruled out, but for other reasons. If the results give Bouteflika winner in the first round, and this is the hypothesis most feared, we already know that Benflis will not shut up and he will certainly concocted a plan to express their rejection of the results. Not that he already considered already as the winner, but simply because he was anticipating the risk of manipulation of the polls. This is what he has not stopped pounding in its campaign rallies, and even in his last speech in the media. How could he react in this case? In his statement to RTL Monday it from the outset ruled out any call to revolt. How, in this case, could it save face in front of his flock, the millions of Algerians who supported and believed in him until the last minute? Will he let them run wild against the power that will be confiscated a legitimate victory? In this case, the risk of confrontation with the security forces may be the trigger of a spiral of violence, no one can predict the consequences, with a lot of arrests, victims ... This can not that arrange his opponents who have already pasted the label of violence. Also, in such a pre-insurrectionary context of violence more or less serious may be endorsed camp Benflis to justify his political disqualification has in fact already begun.
April 8th, 2004 scenario "bis"? In other cases Benflis declared defeated, can be solved with the idea to capitalize this extraordinary popular movement that brought him throughout the campaign to announce the creation of a major political party, and thus pose serious alternative in the future. This is the only way, in such circumstances, to satisfy the thousands of cadres and activists, many of whom are from the FLN, who accompanied him and who, in return, would hope to find openings to promote their political careers, many blocked by the current system. This is the scenario of the 2004 presidential election which may, indeed, be reissued, but with maturation and a political project and more. Even if a potential risk of defeat, as in 2004, victims within ruling circles where he was active supporters. It also may be frowned upon by some of the population disillusioned by so many past experiences, and therefore can be quickly gained by a sense of defeatism. That is why Benflis and his supporters have no other choice but to stay offensive, regardless of the outcome of the election, and imagine the form suitable to withstand what should qualify confiscation programmed the popular will, the former head of government believes embody. In this case, the attitude qu'adopteront the army and security services, in general, will be crucial for the conduct to be chosen to face a forced passage of the team installed in power.
The "Ivorian" scenario If the ratio of forces on the ground remain balanced, thanks in part to the neutrality that has managed to "secure with strength and determination," the poll military, as just pointed out the Chief 'Staff of the ANP, so theoretically unbiased, Ali Benflis tempted to go to the radical solution, declaring itself the winner. There has already alluded, saying he would announce the results of the vote before the Minister of the Interior. This means that it would not recognize the official figures were different from his. This can lead to engage peacefully ultimate showdown with the incumbent president and his clan, which would leave him no choice but to declare before the Algerian people and to the world, as the new president. The country might then end up with two heads of state, as in Côte d'Ivoire in 2010, where two presidential candidates, Laurent Gbagbo and Ouattara Hassane, fought victory for several months before an intervention foreign military, might come, on behalf of the "international community", flush the outgoing president.But it is certain that in the case of Algeria, the army would not accept that access to the highest office is "somalisé" in this way. If it remains in its constitutional powers, which dictate him to observe a neutral and healthy position in the political game, it is no less aware of the role it will play if the unity and sovereignty of the nation are endangered.To do this, it can not evade its duty to prevent arbitration against scenarios that plunge Algeria in a new round of regression. R. Mahmoudi
ARTICLE | APRIL 15, 2014 -. 9:39
The presidential election has revived national politics in a coma for fifteen years. Sid-Ali/New Press
At least forty-eight hours a crucial appointment, uncertainty and fear remain the watchwords in all the statements of politicians and commentators, but also in all public discussions where the cruel memories of a bloody country have suddenly substituted for passionate and exciting controversy that fueled the campaign for three weeks. I must say that the fears have grown since the outcry officially launched by President candidate who chose the last days of the campaign to emerge from its lethargy and give his instructions to the camera. The first is to demonize the main opponent to the death that threatens to win the election, if unfortunately the levers of fraud could not work as expected. Immediate relay, political and media, were quick to run with ever greater zeal, and using propaganda to accuse Benflis Ali and his supporters to prepare an insurrection in the announcement of results in the assumption, well understood, a defeat that would badly digested by them.
Worst Case Scenario Some media in the pay of the presidential clan, pushing the impertinence to a climax, do not hesitate to speak of armed militias who expect instructions to sow chaos. That said, a disaster scenario is not ruled out, but for other reasons. If the results give Bouteflika winner in the first round, and this is the hypothesis most feared, we already know that Benflis will not shut up and he will certainly concocted a plan to express their rejection of the results. Not that he already considered already as the winner, but simply because he was anticipating the risk of manipulation of the polls. This is what he has not stopped pounding in its campaign rallies, and even in his last speech in the media. How could he react in this case? In his statement to RTL Monday it from the outset ruled out any call to revolt. How, in this case, could it save face in front of his flock, the millions of Algerians who supported and believed in him until the last minute? Will he let them run wild against the power that will be confiscated a legitimate victory? In this case, the risk of confrontation with the security forces may be the trigger of a spiral of violence, no one can predict the consequences, with a lot of arrests, victims ... This can not that arrange his opponents who have already pasted the label of violence. Also, in such a pre-insurrectionary context of violence more or less serious may be endorsed camp Benflis to justify his political disqualification has in fact already begun.
April 8th, 2004 scenario "bis"? In other cases Benflis declared defeated, can be solved with the idea to capitalize this extraordinary popular movement that brought him throughout the campaign to announce the creation of a major political party, and thus pose serious alternative in the future. This is the only way, in such circumstances, to satisfy the thousands of cadres and activists, many of whom are from the FLN, who accompanied him and who, in return, would hope to find openings to promote their political careers, many blocked by the current system. This is the scenario of the 2004 presidential election which may, indeed, be reissued, but with maturation and a political project and more. Even if a potential risk of defeat, as in 2004, victims within ruling circles where he was active supporters. It also may be frowned upon by some of the population disillusioned by so many past experiences, and therefore can be quickly gained by a sense of defeatism. That is why Benflis and his supporters have no other choice but to stay offensive, regardless of the outcome of the election, and imagine the form suitable to withstand what should qualify confiscation programmed the popular will, the former head of government believes embody. In this case, the attitude qu'adopteront the army and security services, in general, will be crucial for the conduct to be chosen to face a forced passage of the team installed in power.
The "Ivorian" scenario If the ratio of forces on the ground remain balanced, thanks in part to the neutrality that has managed to "secure with strength and determination," the poll military, as just pointed out the Chief 'Staff of the ANP, so theoretically unbiased, Ali Benflis tempted to go to the radical solution, declaring itself the winner. There has already alluded, saying he would announce the results of the vote before the Minister of the Interior. This means that it would not recognize the official figures were different from his. This can lead to engage peacefully ultimate showdown with the incumbent president and his clan, which would leave him no choice but to declare before the Algerian people and to the world, as the new president. The country might then end up with two heads of state, as in Côte d'Ivoire in 2010, where two presidential candidates, Laurent Gbagbo and Ouattara Hassane, fought victory for several months before an intervention foreign military, might come, on behalf of the "international community", flush the outgoing president.But it is certain that in the case of Algeria, the army would not accept that access to the highest office is "somalisé" in this way. If it remains in its constitutional powers, which dictate him to observe a neutral and healthy position in the political game, it is no less aware of the role it will play if the unity and sovereignty of the nation are endangered.To do this, it can not evade its duty to prevent arbitration against scenarios that plunge Algeria in a new round of regression. R. Mahmoudi
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In no case the "Sissi scenario" was mentioned, although highly possible. The army will intervene as she did in the 90's to disband the FIS at the demand of the population at large...If the highly flammable situation hits the streets Bouteflika, and his clan like the Mubarek's and the Ben Ali's before him, might find themselves in Blida's Farm.
Any ejection of the COS, a hardcore Bouteflikist, would be a prelude to an imposed political transition by the army
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Brahima claimed that Bouteflika's health condition has improved....same as Syria's conditions..
While Bouteflika's caompaign had to bus in crowd and employees to fill their meeting...Benflis had no problem filling his..
Title: Benflis has all the chances to replace Bouteflka
In the Bubble Bouteflika...He had a stroke too..
ALGERIA, AND ALWAYS BOUTEFLIKA
APRIL 13, 2014 | BY PETER PUCHOT
Between the absence of Bouteflika and limited boycott supporters capacity to mobilize the Algerian campaign for the presidential election ends this Sunday in a tense, background demagogic promises and threats of the authorities.
A local campaign Bouteflika Bab El Oued © Pierre Puchot
Ali Benflis, after ten years of silence, wants to shake the Algerian "system"
APRIL 4, 2014 | BY PETER PUCHOT
After ten years of silence, the former secretary general of the FLN and the Prime Minister is again a candidate for the presidency of the Republic of Algeria. Carrier program "for the quiet change" , the man abstains from criticism however the Algerian army or intelligence services, yet ubiquitous in the weeks leading up to the campaign.
MARCH 13, 2014 | BY PETER PUCHOT
Since the announcement of the candidacy of Abdelaziz Bouteflika to a fourth presidential term, many events take place in Algiers and outside the capital. A new movement, Barakat ("Enough") occupies one of the Algerian media. Interview with co-founder, Mustapha Benfodil, journalist and playwright.
FEBRUARY 21, 2014 | BY PETER PUCHOT
While the FLN announced at least two months of the presidential election, the candidate Abdelaziz Bouteflika, clientelism and patronage in contemporary Algeria , work based on field surveys conducted throughout the 2000s and up 'legislative 2012, provides an in depth look on the Algerian regime.Interview with the author, Mohammed Hachemaoui.
MARCH 5, 2014 | BY PETER PUCHOT
In Algeria, Bouteflika Monday filed his candidacy for a fourth term. The plan can really be satisfied with such a standstill, while in the medium term is the question of the future of the oil revenues? Is that it relies on the Algerian authorities to contain social unrest.
NOVEMBER 9, 2013 | BY PETER PUCHOT
On the occasion of the 2013 edition of Maghreb films, which began on November 9, Mediapart broadcast excerpts from the filmography of the filmmaker Malek Bensmaïl. Born in 1966, the Algerian director navigates between documentary and fiction. He remains one of the few to tackle head Algerian society.
FEBRUARY 12, 2014 | BY PETER PUCHOT
Within three months of the presidential election, President Bouteflika, sick, is not yet a candidate for a fourth term. Substantive debate gave way to speculation about the battles behind the scenes of the regime.
Algeria's Bouteflika end of the cycle, the army still in business
MAY 22, 2013 | BY PETER PUCHOT
With cancer, the Algerian president has been hospitalized for nearly a month in Paris. In Algeria, the policy is not ready, and the country reflects on the consequences of death of the president, one year of a presidential election that Bouteflika was the favorite.
MAY 9, 2012 | BY PETER PUCHOT
Some tremors in April in the press, announced the victory of the Islamist coalition, and that's all. Presented at the end of last year by the presidency as the climax of the Algerian democratic development, the parliamentary elections on Thursday are in line with previous years, around a docile opposition.
APRIL 8, 2012 | BY PETER PUCHOT
Leila and Mohammed, Oran, March 2012. © P.Puchot
Mediapart went to meet several couples and Algerian citizens of Oran, Bab el Oued in Algiers, Bejaia or to ask them how we love in a society filled with paradoxes.
Algeria 2012: Bejaia city of a country without a state
MARCH 20, 2012 | BY PETER PUCHOT
Bejaia city center. © (PP)
This is Kabylia, countries of the Amazigh culture and Bejaia is the second largest port in the country after Algiers. But here, the cultural and economic vitality of society into violent collision with the chaos favored by the absence of state. Report from Bejaia symbol"the anarchitecture" , our special envoy to Algeria.
MARCH 15, 2012 | BY PETER PUCHOT
Rihab Alloula © P.Puchot
This is behind the scenes of the decade Bouteflika behind national reconciliation, forgetting the victims of terrorism lurks, and the trauma continues. Oran meeting with three activists who are trying to revive civil society. From our special correspondent in Algeria.
Algiers, capital of boredom
MARCH 3, 2012 | BY PETER PUCHOT
Downtown Algiers, March 2012 © Pierre Puchot
In this year of the fiftieth anniversary of its independence, the beautiful capital of Algeria is immersed in a cultural coma, social conservatism and more from the carelessness of the authorities and a dramatic Islamization of society. From our special correspondent in Algeria .
Algeria, next Arab revolution?
FEBRUARY 7, 2012 | BY PETER PUCHOT
The origin of the Arab Spring is economic: social inequality, lack of opportunity in the labor market, crumbling infrastructure and public institutions ... In this field, Algeria, despite its petro-dollars, has nothing to envy Tunisia. On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of independence, Mediapart began a series devoted to Algeria by an economic portrait.
Algeria, an air of dissent
JUNE 24, 2011 | BY DOMINIQUE CONIL
Columnists acids and relevant Algerian life, Kamel Daoud and Chawki Amari are also writers. Poetry, absurd humor, and false admission of impotence. Against the "great disappointment" dissent.
France-Algeria, a shared history book
AUGUST 29, 2012 | BY JOSEPH CONFAVREUX
Telling the history of colonial Algeria, the military conquest of 1830 to the War of Independence of 1962, drawing on scholars from both sides of the Mediterranean: the challenge of an ambitious collective narrative released today simultaneously in France and Algeria. extracted with PDF.
For Franco-Algerian fraternity
JUNE 22, 2012 | BY EDWY PLENEL
It is time to look history in the face and reconcile memories. It is finding its Algerian lucidly share that France will find the way of the world in a fraternity reinvented.
France-Algeria: an evening event on Mediapart
JUNE 22, 2012 | BY WRITING MEDIAPART
Mediapart organized a special evening on Friday to celebrate the 50 th anniversary of the independence of Algeria. On the menu: history, memory, hope, live music Amazigh Kateb and derision with Souad Belhaddad ... Our full video and the various debates.
Tuesday, 15 April 2014 11:20
"The fourth mandate will deprive the Algeria of all its assets"
Written by Editorial El Watan 2014
"We call on the army officers not to yield to adventurous temptation "Photo DR
Rumors, true or not, the division of the military command about the political situation of the country is a source of concern for citizens, who fear that the army unit is threatened.
As an active member of civil society, we are echoing a deep anxiety of our citizens who fear a repeat of the 1962 crisis that nothing justifies. Sociological foundation of our society does not contain such a threat, Algeria is neither Lebanon communities ancestral hatreds or Syria where the military hierarchy is dominated by a religious minority.
From a popular liberation movement, the ANP is the product of national consciousness, forged by several generations of nationalists who sacrificed their lives in the anti-colonial struggle. She was born to defend the nation and ensure its unity. Whatever the political differences at the time, the officers of the military command have the bounden duty to maintain intact the unity of the army, precious gains of the revolution of 1954.
If historical events have led to embody national sovereignty in the name of a historic mission to accomplish, senior officers must demonstrate intelligence to deny that the political and ideological divisions in society are reflected in their ranks. It is in the nature of things that members of the National Assembly belonging to different currents are publicly divided and polemicize them within the confines of their institution, it is dangerous that officers are politicized and s 'involved in the choice of men who will lead the state.
The construction of the rule of law is a difficult and tortuous path, where the material interests of individuals and the lust for power and power groups are included trends in the nature of human beings. The only way to overcome them is the establishment of institutional checks and balances to enforce the laws of the rule of law above all.
In regional and international environment become more aggressive since the Arab revolts, Algeria can not afford to have an army like the other failed state institutions. Western imperialism in the guise of today's globalism, a memory and does not forgive the NLA have snatched independence from the revolutionary struggle. Civilians than we are by patriotic duty to call senior officers also have the memory and keep them intact in the ethics of ALN strengthening unity of command to preserve the ANP political and ideological divisions, manageable in society but unmanageable in the army.
It is urgent to put the country on the path of democratic transition. The responsibility of the army in this regard, historical. The conditions are now favorable for a peaceful transition. It will not be the same tomorrow. The 4th term will deepen fractures and dispossess the Algeria of all its assets. Impending decline in revenues from oil will then push the country into a crisis without any issues. Unless you want to sell off our wealth and abdicate our sovereignty. The result is quite the same.
Also, we call the officers of the various devices of the army not to yield to temptation adventurous. This would expose the country to a drama too.
The decision must now return to the citizens and to citizens who must decide freely. Past mistakes belong to the history and the future generations to come. The election of April 17 is an episode in the history of the country, it takes shelter breaks irreversible. Glory to our martyrs.
Lahouari Addi et Djamel Zenati
While Bouteflika's caompaign had to bus in crowd and employees to fill their meeting...Benflis had no problem filling his..
Title: Benflis has all the chances to replace Bouteflka
In the Bubble Bouteflika...He had a stroke too..
ALGERIA, AND ALWAYS BOUTEFLIKA
APRIL 13, 2014 | BY PETER PUCHOT
Between the absence of Bouteflika and limited boycott supporters capacity to mobilize the Algerian campaign for the presidential election ends this Sunday in a tense, background demagogic promises and threats of the authorities.
Ali Benflis, after ten years of silence, wants to shake the Algerian "system"
APRIL 4, 2014 | BY PETER PUCHOT
After ten years of silence, the former secretary general of the FLN and the Prime Minister is again a candidate for the presidency of the Republic of Algeria. Carrier program "for the quiet change" , the man abstains from criticism however the Algerian army or intelligence services, yet ubiquitous in the weeks leading up to the campaign.
MARCH 13, 2014 | BY PETER PUCHOT
Since the announcement of the candidacy of Abdelaziz Bouteflika to a fourth presidential term, many events take place in Algiers and outside the capital. A new movement, Barakat ("Enough") occupies one of the Algerian media. Interview with co-founder, Mustapha Benfodil, journalist and playwright.
FEBRUARY 21, 2014 | BY PETER PUCHOT
While the FLN announced at least two months of the presidential election, the candidate Abdelaziz Bouteflika, clientelism and patronage in contemporary Algeria , work based on field surveys conducted throughout the 2000s and up 'legislative 2012, provides an in depth look on the Algerian regime.Interview with the author, Mohammed Hachemaoui.
MARCH 5, 2014 | BY PETER PUCHOT
In Algeria, Bouteflika Monday filed his candidacy for a fourth term. The plan can really be satisfied with such a standstill, while in the medium term is the question of the future of the oil revenues? Is that it relies on the Algerian authorities to contain social unrest.
NOVEMBER 9, 2013 | BY PETER PUCHOT
On the occasion of the 2013 edition of Maghreb films, which began on November 9, Mediapart broadcast excerpts from the filmography of the filmmaker Malek Bensmaïl. Born in 1966, the Algerian director navigates between documentary and fiction. He remains one of the few to tackle head Algerian society.
FEBRUARY 12, 2014 | BY PETER PUCHOT
Within three months of the presidential election, President Bouteflika, sick, is not yet a candidate for a fourth term. Substantive debate gave way to speculation about the battles behind the scenes of the regime.
Algeria's Bouteflika end of the cycle, the army still in business
MAY 22, 2013 | BY PETER PUCHOT
With cancer, the Algerian president has been hospitalized for nearly a month in Paris. In Algeria, the policy is not ready, and the country reflects on the consequences of death of the president, one year of a presidential election that Bouteflika was the favorite.
MAY 9, 2012 | BY PETER PUCHOT
Some tremors in April in the press, announced the victory of the Islamist coalition, and that's all. Presented at the end of last year by the presidency as the climax of the Algerian democratic development, the parliamentary elections on Thursday are in line with previous years, around a docile opposition.
APRIL 8, 2012 | BY PETER PUCHOT
Leila and Mohammed, Oran, March 2012. © P.PuchotMediapart went to meet several couples and Algerian citizens of Oran, Bab el Oued in Algiers, Bejaia or to ask them how we love in a society filled with paradoxes.
Algeria 2012: Bejaia city of a country without a state
MARCH 20, 2012 | BY PETER PUCHOT
Bejaia city center. © (PP)This is Kabylia, countries of the Amazigh culture and Bejaia is the second largest port in the country after Algiers. But here, the cultural and economic vitality of society into violent collision with the chaos favored by the absence of state. Report from Bejaia symbol"the anarchitecture" , our special envoy to Algeria.
MARCH 15, 2012 | BY PETER PUCHOT
Rihab Alloula © P.PuchotThis is behind the scenes of the decade Bouteflika behind national reconciliation, forgetting the victims of terrorism lurks, and the trauma continues. Oran meeting with three activists who are trying to revive civil society. From our special correspondent in Algeria.
Algiers, capital of boredom
MARCH 3, 2012 | BY PETER PUCHOT
Downtown Algiers, March 2012 © Pierre PuchotIn this year of the fiftieth anniversary of its independence, the beautiful capital of Algeria is immersed in a cultural coma, social conservatism and more from the carelessness of the authorities and a dramatic Islamization of society. From our special correspondent in Algeria .
Algeria, next Arab revolution?
FEBRUARY 7, 2012 | BY PETER PUCHOT
The origin of the Arab Spring is economic: social inequality, lack of opportunity in the labor market, crumbling infrastructure and public institutions ... In this field, Algeria, despite its petro-dollars, has nothing to envy Tunisia. On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of independence, Mediapart began a series devoted to Algeria by an economic portrait.
Algeria, an air of dissent
JUNE 24, 2011 | BY DOMINIQUE CONIL
Columnists acids and relevant Algerian life, Kamel Daoud and Chawki Amari are also writers. Poetry, absurd humor, and false admission of impotence. Against the "great disappointment" dissent.
France-Algeria, a shared history book
AUGUST 29, 2012 | BY JOSEPH CONFAVREUX
Telling the history of colonial Algeria, the military conquest of 1830 to the War of Independence of 1962, drawing on scholars from both sides of the Mediterranean: the challenge of an ambitious collective narrative released today simultaneously in France and Algeria. extracted with PDF.
For Franco-Algerian fraternity
JUNE 22, 2012 | BY EDWY PLENEL
It is time to look history in the face and reconcile memories. It is finding its Algerian lucidly share that France will find the way of the world in a fraternity reinvented.
France-Algeria: an evening event on Mediapart
JUNE 22, 2012 | BY WRITING MEDIAPART
Mediapart organized a special evening on Friday to celebrate the 50 th anniversary of the independence of Algeria. On the menu: history, memory, hope, live music Amazigh Kateb and derision with Souad Belhaddad ... Our full video and the various debates.
Tuesday, 15 April 2014 11:20
"The fourth mandate will deprive the Algeria of all its assets"
Written by Editorial El Watan 2014
"We call on the army officers not to yield to adventurous temptation "Photo DRRumors, true or not, the division of the military command about the political situation of the country is a source of concern for citizens, who fear that the army unit is threatened.
As an active member of civil society, we are echoing a deep anxiety of our citizens who fear a repeat of the 1962 crisis that nothing justifies. Sociological foundation of our society does not contain such a threat, Algeria is neither Lebanon communities ancestral hatreds or Syria where the military hierarchy is dominated by a religious minority.
From a popular liberation movement, the ANP is the product of national consciousness, forged by several generations of nationalists who sacrificed their lives in the anti-colonial struggle. She was born to defend the nation and ensure its unity. Whatever the political differences at the time, the officers of the military command have the bounden duty to maintain intact the unity of the army, precious gains of the revolution of 1954.
If historical events have led to embody national sovereignty in the name of a historic mission to accomplish, senior officers must demonstrate intelligence to deny that the political and ideological divisions in society are reflected in their ranks. It is in the nature of things that members of the National Assembly belonging to different currents are publicly divided and polemicize them within the confines of their institution, it is dangerous that officers are politicized and s 'involved in the choice of men who will lead the state.
The construction of the rule of law is a difficult and tortuous path, where the material interests of individuals and the lust for power and power groups are included trends in the nature of human beings. The only way to overcome them is the establishment of institutional checks and balances to enforce the laws of the rule of law above all.
In regional and international environment become more aggressive since the Arab revolts, Algeria can not afford to have an army like the other failed state institutions. Western imperialism in the guise of today's globalism, a memory and does not forgive the NLA have snatched independence from the revolutionary struggle. Civilians than we are by patriotic duty to call senior officers also have the memory and keep them intact in the ethics of ALN strengthening unity of command to preserve the ANP political and ideological divisions, manageable in society but unmanageable in the army.
It is urgent to put the country on the path of democratic transition. The responsibility of the army in this regard, historical. The conditions are now favorable for a peaceful transition. It will not be the same tomorrow. The 4th term will deepen fractures and dispossess the Algeria of all its assets. Impending decline in revenues from oil will then push the country into a crisis without any issues. Unless you want to sell off our wealth and abdicate our sovereignty. The result is quite the same.
Also, we call the officers of the various devices of the army not to yield to temptation adventurous. This would expose the country to a drama too.
The decision must now return to the citizens and to citizens who must decide freely. Past mistakes belong to the history and the future generations to come. The election of April 17 is an episode in the history of the country, it takes shelter breaks irreversible. Glory to our martyrs.
Lahouari Addi et Djamel Zenati
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