Bouteflika

Algeria's Bouteflika Due to Submit Candidacy amid Protests (Yesterday) - Algeria's Constitutional Council has been placed under high security as President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's bid for.

However, the broad, popular expectation was that the same urgency and determination that forced Bouteflika out would eventually overwhelm the remaining Bouteflika cohort, forcing them to leave room for a new crop of young, in-touch political leaders.

State Media: Algeria's Bouteflika to Resign This Month (Yesterday) - Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika will resign before his mandate ends on April 28, state news.

Those same elites announced earlier this year that Bouteflika would run for a since February took to the streets to call for his ouster, a development that shocked Bouteflika loyalists.

Abdelaziz Bouteflika took power in 1999, ending the civil war.

The protests initially aimed to prevent Bouteflika's re-election, but they quickly evolved into broader demands for democratic change and an end to the entrenched political system.

Months of sustained uprisings in Algeria and Sudan led to the removal of 30-year incumbents Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Omar al-Bashir.

Tebboune served as the Prime Minister of Algeria for three months until Bouteflika sacked him in August 2017.

The protests came after former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced that he would be running for his fifth term in the next election.

Algeria: An army chief, an ailing president and a political crisis (2 days ago) - Algeria's army chief, Ahmed Gaid Salah, has urged President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to step down.

Algeria’s Abdelaziz Bouteflika has announced he will not run for a fifth term as president after two decades in power,a key demand of protesters who have taken to the streets in recent weeks.

Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has left office after 20 years in power following a warning from the country's army chief to "immediately" step down.

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria is facing a new era after President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s resignation — and questions about what happens next for this gas-rich country and ally to the West in fighting terrorism.

An essential part of the ongoing demonstrations is a desire to inspire a radical rupture from the Bouteflika establishment.

Army chief Gaid Salah demanded last week that Bouteflika step down or that the Constitutional Council declare him unfit for office, invoking Article 102 of the Constitution.

As many have correctly pointed out, now instead of a fifth term Bouteflika is poised for a fourth term with no end in sight even though according to the constitution, he can no longer rule legally beyond April 28.

As negotiations failed, General Liamine Zeroual took the job instead and Bouteflika once again went into oblivion, but for a shorter period this time.

Bouteflika also failed to create an economy that could offer enough jobs for Algeria’s growing youth population despite the nation’s vast oil and gas wealth.

Bouteflika’s gone, but it’s far from over,” said 35-year-old Amal, who wore a T-shirt with the slogan “I am against the system” and vowed to march again today.

Earlier this year Algerians took to the streets and to social media to criticize President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, after he announced the decision to run for a fifth term.