Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika sent a message to the Algerian people yesterday, announcing the postponement of the presidential elections scheduled for April 18, 2019, not to run for a fifth term, and that a new constitution will be submitted to the referendum. , And the appointment of Noureddine Badawi as his successor, and Ramtan Lamamra was appointed deputy prime minister, while celebrations took place in the streets of Algiers.

In the details, APS quoted Bouteflika's message, in which the presidential election scheduled for April 18, 2019, was postponed.

"My health and age only allow me to perform my last duty towards the people," Bouteflika said. "I had no intention of running for president."

Bouteflika explained: "I understand the message that the young people of Algeria," adding: «I will present the draft constitution prepared by the National Seminar for the referendum. The organization of presidential elections will take place after a comprehensive national dialogue. "

"In particular, I understand the message that our youth have expressed in terms of their concern and ambition for their future and the future of their country," Bouteflika said in the same letter. "I also understand the contrast that has generated some anxiety between the organization of the presidential elections on a technically timely date, Is a milestone in institutional and political life, and the rapid opening of a wide-ranging workshop with the highest political priority, without undue disruption, which envisages the conceptualization and implementation of profound reforms in the political, institutional, economic and social spheres, involving the widest and most representative of the civil society My visitors, including the share that must be given to women and youth. "

"I also understand that the project of renewing the national state, which has revealed to you the most important details, should be added to it further clarification, and be prepared to avoid any suspicion may be perpetuated, by gathering the necessary conditions and conditions for adoption by all social classes and all Components of the Algerian nation ».

The Algerian president also put forward the option of forming a new government for his people. "I am determined to mobilize more public authorities and to increase the effectiveness of the state's work in all fields. I have decided to make major changes to the cabinet as soon as possible," he said. These amendments will be an appropriate response to the demands that came from you and proof of the need for accountability and careful evaluation of the exercise of responsibility at all levels, and in all sectors ».

In a related context, Bouteflika called for the holding of the national symposium "The Independent University, which will be a body with all the necessary authorities to study, prepare and adopt all kinds of reforms that will form the basis of the new system that will lead to the launching of the transformation of our national state. Which I made with the help of God and extended, and by the mandate of the Algerian people ».

Bouteflika stressed that the symposium he called "will be fair in terms of representing the Algerian society and its various sects and sects."

"The symposium will organize its work freely under the leadership of a pluralistic presidential body, headed by an independent national figure, acceptable and experienced, to ensure that this symposium is to be discharged before the end of 2019. The draft constitution prepared by the National Seminar on the referendum, "It will be the independent government that will assume sovereignty by setting the date of the presidential election, which I will not run in any way."

Bouteflika also stressed that the presidential elections "will be organized, following the national symposium of the independent university, under the exclusive supervision of an independent national electoral commission, whose mandate, composition and modus operandi will be determined by a special legislative text that will draw on the most effective and internationally recognized experience and practice. It was decided to establish an independent national electoral commission in response to a broad demand expressed by the various Algerian political formations, as well as the long-standing recommendations made by the observed missions. "

Bouteflika signed a presidential decree dissolving the Independent High Electoral Monitoring Body, dismissing its president Abdelwahab Darbal and members of this body.

The Algerian president returned to his country, the night before last, after spending two weeks in a Swiss hospital «for routine medical examinations», according to the Algerian presidency.

Bouteflika, 82, traveled to Geneva on February 24, two days after tens of thousands of Algerians took part in protests against his candidacy for a fifth term.

Later, Bouteflika met with Algerian Army Chief of Staff Lieutenant-General Ahmed Kayed Saleh. During the meeting, Saleh presented a report on the security situation at the national level, particularly along the border.

Tens of thousands of Algerians from various social classes protested against Bouteflika's decision to run in elections scheduled for April, rejecting the political system that has been in stalemate and the control of veterans since Algeria's independence from France in 1962. In Algiers, dozens of members of the General Workers Union Algerians, before Bouteflika's letter, to protest outside the headquarters of the Union, demanding his leader Abdelmajid Sidi Said, ally of Bouteflika to resign.

Dozens of high and middle school students in Algeria protested yesterday against Bouteflika's candidacy, after Algeria has been living in recent days the phenomenon of the departure of schoolchildren in the protests, in a precedent that is the first in the history of Algeria.

For her part, described the Algerian Minister of Education, Nouria Ben Ghabrit, on the official page on the social networking site «Facebook», yesterday, the exit of students to the street as «a serious».

"All of us, out of moral obligation and responsibility, must protect our schools, our pupils and our children," she said.

"The school, because it is free and compulsory, is therefore the People's School," Ben Ghabrit said, calling for its preservation "from any intentional or unintentional act aimed at politicizing it and exploiting it."

She continued: "Let us all work, parents, teachers, students and promoters, and stand on one word: the Algerian school above all considerations».