Algeria will hold a presidential election on July 4 after protests urged former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to resign
Algerians have continued with the demonstrations, which kicked off in February against veteran leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika and the ruling"gang," hoping for wholesale reforms in the political arena.
No further details were immediately given. On Tuesday, interim president Abdelkader Bensalah had said he would organise free elections within 90 days. "The army will meet the people's demands," said Salah, addressing officers and soldiers at a military base. ”The judiciary has recovered its prerogative and can work freely.
In 2012, a series of scandals shook Sonatrach, which was tightly controlled by Bouteflika loyalists. Its CEO and other executives were imprisoned for graft offences.The army patiently monitored the unrest, which started on February 22, from the sidelines. Then Salah intervened, declaring Bouteflika – rarely seen in public since suffering a stroke in 2013 – unfit to rule.
Algeria's generals are highly sensitive to instability. In the early 1990s, the army cancelled an election that the religious right was poised to win, touching off a shattering civil war that killed an estimated 200,000 people.
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