Algeria President ,Bouteflika Resigns Amid Mass Protest
Algerian President ,Abdelaziz Bouteflika has resigned bowing to mass protest,Algiers state news agency APS reported on Monday.
He will give up his office before his designated end-of-term date on April 28.
The decision came after hundreds of people demonstrated in Algiers against government.
A privately owned Algerian TV network said had on Sunday, following weeks of mass protest and the army chief of staff’s call to have the president declared unfit for office.
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Citing unnamed political sources, the network, Ennahar TV, reported that Mr. Bouteflika might announce his resignation on Tuesday, according to Reuters.
Also on Sunday night, Algerian national television announced that Mr. Bouteflika and Prime Minister Noureddine Bedoui had named a new government, and that it would keep Gen. Ahmed Gaïd Salah as the army chief of staff and vice defense minister.
General Gaïd Salah had stated that the Constitutional Council should be set in motion as part of process to end Mr. Bouteflika’s 20-year presidency.
Critics accused the army chief of trying to orchestrate a coup, and he suggested Saturday that unnamed figures were plotting against him as a result of his stand against Mr. Bouteflika’s presidency.
Under Article 102 of Algeria’s Constitution, a Constitutional Council can declare Mr. Bouteflika unfit for office or he can resign.
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