Algeria's Bouteflika abandons re-election bid after weeks of protest

[Falcon29]

Protests haven't stopped, they want him to resign. IMO, these are serious protests, reminds me of when Egyptians forced Mubarak to resign. Surprised it isn't getting much coverage.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1106698065577164800

 

[Ceylal]

Protests haven't stopped, they want him to resign. IMO, these are serious protests, reminds me of when Egyptians forced Mubarak to resign. Surprised it isn't getting much coverage.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1106698065577164800

It has been covered all around the world, save the Arab world. The marches or protest is Algerian and it will stay Algerian...And the solution will be Algerian, dictated by the street..Bouteflika died while back, and his regime , with his collaborateurs and his rich class are looking for an honorable way to leave . The street will judge them accordingly.

 

[50cent]

This guy is in his retirement age he needs rest

 

[Ceylal]

This guy is in his retirement age he needs rest

He retired in 2013..he just didn’t know it...Now , is time for the broom..

 

[Falcon29]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1107677560832491520

 

[Ceylal]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1107677560832491520

Bouteflika is dead while back..and the fate of his regime will be sealed this week..

 

[HannibalBarca]

The regime hasn't yet fully tested the limit of the people...
More conflict/testing will come.

Inshallah... The security apparatus do not over react for whatever reason...
Right now the Police got the "Friendly" badge on their back "For now"... But the Army on the other hand has yet to express directly their "choice"...

 

[Ceylal]

The regime hasn't yet fully tested the limit of the people...
More conflict/testing will come.

Inshallah... The security apparatus do not over react for whatever reason...
Right now the Police got the "Friendly" badge on their back "For now"... But the Army on the other hand has yet to express directly their "choice"...

The army will never rise against her people. It is not the army of the eighties...The army is a républicain entity and from the speeches given by the COS and vice minister of Defence point to that direction...

 

[HannibalBarca]

The army will never rise against her people. It is not the army of the eighties...The army is a républicain entity and from the speeches given by the COS and vice minister of Defence point to that direction...

Still... The "public" choice wasn't made yet.
As long as the Army corpus doesn't say it clearly... The regime WILL continue to test the people... And the regime "COULD" push a little too much where people "frustration" is unbearable... and it will be their "excuse" to act...

 

[Ceylal]

Still... The "public" choice wasn't made yet.
As long as the Army corpus doesn't say it clearly... The regime WILL continue to test the people... And the regime "COULD" push a little too much where people "frustration" is unbearable... and it will be their "excuse" to act...

The Army is solid behind the public, if we analyse the change of tone in the declarations of the chief of staff...For the regime, he is finished and this coming Friday will be it’s end, because is going to march until it’s dparture..

 

[HannibalBarca]

The Army is solid behind the public, if we analyse the change of tone in the declarations of the chief of staff...For the regime, he is finished and this coming Friday will be it’s end, because is going to march until it’s dparture..

In Tunisia, The Army gave his support Directly, while The police corpus was in the meantime using force against the people. like we saw in the early times of the Algerian protest.
But Thankfully , our BenAC*nt runaway after the Army gave him the illusion that he "could" come back...

 

[raptor22]

Hope eventually Algerian people get what they want ..

 

[Kambojaric]

Wish the best for Algeria. Hope there is no violence and a smooth transition

 

[ezerdi2]

In Tunisia, The Army gave his support Directly, while The police corpus was in the meantime using force against the people. like we saw in the early times of the Algerian protest.
But Thankfully , our BenAC*nt runaway after the Army gave him the illusion that he "could" come back...

Tunisian army has never been involved in politics. That is very important, And second Tunisia had strong oppositionleaders like Merzouki, Ghannouchi, opposition coalition this made the process to democracy much easier.
The old regime was mainly Ben Ali family. In Algeria opposition is divided, tne rulling regime is more complicated, it is the army, intelligence, clans, etc and they will not give up power so easily.

 

[HannibalBarca]

Tunisian army has never been involved in politics. That is very important, And second Tunisia had strong oppositionleaders like Merzouki, Ghannouchi, opposition coalition this made the process to democracy much easier.
The old regime was mainly Ben Ali family. In Algeria opposition is divided, tne rulling regime is more complicated, it is the army, intelligence, clans, etc and they will not give up power so easily.

The Army wasn't politicly invovlved that is true, but they had their "Statut" ofc not as the Algerian one, where it's part of the political sys. But still... When the Army in X or Y country give direct support to the people, the "head" at the top is already doomed. (And I don't believe that the Algerian Army is entirely under Regime hands, could be wrong, but still don't think so)
As for the Democratic transition, they were no opposition, that's why we had so many problems/mistakes in the early days. Those opposition figures were only "Figures" nothing more nothing else. We saw the result later on.
The Clan in control wasn't the Ben Ali one, but the Trabelsi ones... They were in every lvl of the society... and had access to the repressive corpus, as we saw after Ben Ali runaway, when they let go of the mercenaries to propagate fear. In hope the people ask them back to make it stop.