Ailing and absent Algerian President Bouteflika says he will run for a fifth term, despite violent protests against his rule
The 82-year-old leader suffered a stroke in 2013 and has rarely been seen in public since, but nonetheless plans to run for a fifth term, his campaign manager Abdelghani Zaalane said Sunday on national television.Zaalane said Bouteflika would call for early elections, but only if he is elected again.Bouteflika would organize a national conference to open the way for a debate to consider proposals to amend the constitution and decide the timing for early elections, Zaalane said.
Bouteflika's move will enrage protesters who have been leading an expression of public fury rarely seen in a country tightly controlled by security services.Protestors attempt to overturn a police van in Algiers on Friday.Many of the activists have been calling for the elections to be scrapped altogether, and for a more drastic overhaul of the country's government.
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