Alger
The announcement by President Tebboune, Thursday March 21, of an early presidential election (initially scheduled for December, it will be held on September 7, 2024) awakened Algeria from the political coma in which it has been plunged since 2019. At the phase of amazement followed questions and speculations, fueled by the esoteric language elements of the official press agency, spokesperson for the presidency. In a text presented as a decryption of the announcement, the story dresses the decision with internal motivations - a "recalibration" of the electoral calendar after the exceptional hiatus of the Hirak (revolt movement against the power) which had led to the resignation of Abdelaziz Bouteflika in 2019 - and external - a necessary adaptation to “external threats”.
Since this weekend, the horizon has brightened. A cluster of signals in any case outlines a more than probable scenario: the candidacy of Abdelmadjid Tebboune, 78 years old, for a second (and last, according to the Constitution)…
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