Tens of thousands of Algerians took to the streets on Friday, making a show of s...
ALGIERS - Tens of thousands of Algerians took to the streets on Friday, making a show of strength of their last weekly protest before a presidential election that they have rejected as meaningless.
On Friday in central Algiers they chanted “We will not vote” and held aloft banners reading “The people are fed up.” “We will stick to our position. We don’t care about next Thursday. We need change,” said post office employee Aissa Baha’i, 32. “These candidates are part of the same system. They don’t have new ideas. It’s a shame,” said Mohamed Tabi, a taxi driver.
Farid Hamiti, a state bank employee, said the election was “the only way to stop the situation from getting worse”. Late on Thursday, the security services accused a Berber separatist movement of planning to disrupt the election by using agents provocateurs among the protesters to incite police violence, saying a student in the banned group had confessed.
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