"He can not believe President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's desire to run for a fifth term," said Abdel-Razzaq Maqri, head of the Movement for a Peace Society (Algeria's largest Islamist party).
On his Facebook page, Maqri wrote comments on remarks made by Secretary-General of the ruling National Liberation Front, Gamal Ould Abbas, on Monday that Bouteflika would be his candidate in the 2019 presidency.
"I can not believe that the president wants a fifth term because he knows no one about his health," Makri said. "We ask Allaah to heal him and heal him." "But there are certainly people who are in real trouble who have not been able to agree on the alternative, they are trying to sell the illusion, so let the country be liberated," he said, without giving details about who these people are meant to be.
Ould Abbas said President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 81, would be the ruling party's candidate in the upcoming presidential election next spring in order to win a fifth term.
This is the first time that the party - which is headed by Bouteflika - has declared that the president is his candidate for the elections after inviting him and urging him to enter the race to win a fifth term.
Bouteflika's fourth term in office came into office in 1999, then won three successive mandates, and presidential elections are likely to be held in Algeria in April or May 2019.
Pro-parties and organizations have already called on Bouteflika to run for a fifth term in the upcoming presidential election.
The calls were issued by the ruling coalition parties (the National Liberation Front and the National Democratic Rally), the General Union of Workers, small parties, leaders in the corners (Sufi roads), university student organizations and the heads of institutions forum, the largest gathering of businessmen in the country.
Opposition parties and figures call on Bouteflika not to run for a fifth term because of his health problems. Bouteflika has yet to announce his position on calls to run for a fifth term.