Algeria to address amendment allowing Bouteflika candidacy
2008-09-29
Immediately after Eid Al-Fitr, Algerian legislators will discuss the constitutional amendment allowing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to run in the 2009 elections, El Watan reported on Monday (September 29th). Other pending amendments would create the post of vice-president and allow the prime minister to come from a party other than that which holds the parliamentary majority.
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Fathi Posted 2008-09-29
Yet another good example illustrating why Algeria was just chosen as one of the most corrupt countries in the world and the most corrupt in the Maghreb! Congratulations! Why be surprised at low-level corruption in a country where the highest-level state authorities are an example in themselves, violating even the text and spirit of the constitution? Sugarcoating this pill with such feeble acrobatics like creating a vice-presidential office and stipulating that the Prime Minister cannot come from the parliamentary majority is an insult to our good commonsense and evidence to their contempt towards national and international public opinion. In a truly democratic country, the prime minister justly comes from the parliamentary majority because it reflects the people’s choice. However, the logic of a corrupt country has a reasoning that even reason itself is ignorant of.
Anonymous Posted 2008-11-03
We the Algerian people oppose the amendment of the constitution.
Soula Posted 2009-04-03
I don't know whether the Bouteflika's third term will solve the problem or not but I know that the frontiers between Morocco an Algeria must be opened.
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