Abdelmalek Sellal, the ex-Algerian Prime Minister, will head the campaign team of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika who has officially announced his plans to run for a fifth term in office Sunday. According to the state-run news agency APS, which also announced Bouteflika’s candidacy for a fifth five-year term in April’s elections, Sellal was appointed to the […]
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Ailing Bouteflka to officially run for fifth term
The ruling FLN party has ended suspense by naming President Bouteflika as its candidate for a fifth term in April 18 elections. The move comes after parties in the government coalition voiced support for a fifth term of the 81-year old president who has not spoken in public since suffering a stroke in 2013 that […]
Algeria’s Ruling Coalition wants ailing Bouteflika to run for fifth term
The ruling coalition in Algeria agreed to nominate President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to run for a fifth term amid cries for election boycott. Ailing Bouteflika has yet to confirm. The 82-year-old president who has been in power since 1999 has not spoken in public since he suffered a stroke in 2013. “The parties of the presidential […]
Outcry in Algeria as Ailing President Braces to Run for Fifth Term
Prominent Algerian politicians and intellectuals expressed outcry as the Algerian regime prepares a fifth term for ailing Algerian President Bouteflika who is confined to a wheelchair for years and is unable to speak intelligibly. A letter has been issued calling on Bouteflika to refrain from running for a fifth term in order to enable Algeria […]
Algiera’s Ruling Party Asks Ailing Bouteflika to Run for Fifth Term
Algeria’s ruling FLN party urged ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to run for a fifth term despite his frail health, which made his public appearances a thing of the past. “FLN wants the president to continue his mission he started in 1999, as head of the state,” said FLN Secretary General Djamel Ould Abbes, at a […]
Algeria: Ailing President Bouteflika Set to Run for Fifth Term
As ridicule never killed anyone, ailing Abdelaziz Bouteflika will not quit the Algerian Presidency after his fourth term. Despite his health condition, which has confined him to a wheelchair, his inability to speak intelligibly in public or even meet visiting counterparts, Bouteflika is poised to run for a fifth term. That is what his henchman, […]





