Algeria .. What after the resignation?

Fatima Hamdi-Algeria

"We do not compare to others." "Do not compare us to others because our experience is tougher." With this phrase, one of the students shouted, waving the Algerian flag and waving it in the sky of the Central Post Square, which has become a symbol of popular mobility.

Observers question the political scene of the most prominent concerns experienced by the movement activists who went out in the thousands on the first Friday, and then doubled to the number in millions in less than a week.

The response to this question does not require more than a visit to the major squares in the capital a few hours after the Constitutional Council officially announced the existence of the post of president, where only talk about victory.

"This holiday is a popular national holiday in which the joy of victory is mixed with caution, from the theft of what has been achieved to the day, with the hardness of millions who have taken from the fields pages where they wrote their demands."

The resignation of Abdelaziz Bouteflika is not the first. It was preceded by the late Shazli Bennid and after him the right-wing Zeroual, but all the reasons. The previous generation recalls the details of a new Benn term for his presidential term, and how Zeroual delivered the farewell speech. Today, Algeria is living another spring, where the people wrote the resignation of the president of the country's twenty-year-old son.

There is no fear for Algeria
Political analyst Abdel Razak Bouasagour says the road map is clear to the Algerians now, "because the people have chosen good governance and separation of powers, and aspires to build a new state different from the regimes that governed it previously."

"The Algerians have a project that has achieved its first part, which is to abolish an era and start a new phase that stems from the concept of the modern state towards a responsible state by all standards," Sagour said.

For his part, Dr. Mohammed Khoja, a doctor in political science and international relations, believes that "the most important factors that will ensure the real exit from the Algerian crisis is the strength of institutions."

Khoja said in his speech to Al Jazeera Net that the last stage proved that the institutions remained strong despite the difficult episodes of crisis and convulsion, and the intervention of the wise army, which was keen not to exceed the Constitution and one of the evidence.

He considered the existence of the Constitutional Council, the Parliament and the Council of Nation as an indicator of the ability to activate the articles of the Constitution and assistance in the transitional period.

Arab Spring
The tragedies experienced by most of the peoples of the Arab Spring countries have been an obsession with the rest of the Arab countries. Freedom of expression and the demands of the peoples have been linked to change: blood, Diaspora, hunger and displacement.

The Algerians did not forget what the country experienced in the 1990s, the so-called black decade, when the Algerian woke up to a massacre and closed his door at night in the hope that it would not be a new record in the "victims of terrorism" record.

"Today's Algerians do not need to look at the Arab Spring to understand that the slide towards chaos will not be in the interest of the nation or the people," said Mohamed Ajami, 36,

"The Algerians took their lesson from their painful experience," Ajami said in an interview with Al Jazeera Net on the Odane square in the heart of the capital where he was celebrating Bouteflika's resignation.

"The popular protest in Algeria is a historical reference, and the Algerians have benefited from their national tragedy before they learn from the Arab Spring," Dr. Khoja said.

He added that "the winds of change in the region spread to all parts of the Middle East, but each region its specificity, and perhaps the most important factor affecting the popular movement in Algeria and dedicated peace is the historical accumulation that extends to more than thirty years."

For his part, political analyst Pusagur that his country has an important infrastructure that will enable it to stand again once the rationalization of the national economy.