Algerian Deputy Defense Minister and army chief of staff Lieutenant General Ahmed Kayed Saleh said on Tuesday that the presidential elections scheduled for December 12 are "irreversible" because they are a continuation of the course of the revolution against French colonialism.
This coincides with the continuation of demonstrations rejecting the organization of these elections and demanding the removal of all symbols of the regime of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, with the loud calls for a general strike next Sunday.
"The presidential elections on December 12th are an irreversible continuation of the 1954 revolution that liberated Algeria from the brutal French colonialism," Kaid Saleh said in a speech to military leaders in the northwest.
He stressed that these elections "will lay the foundations of the rule of law and law", reiterating the rejection of the people "categorical" for what he called the European Parliament's attempt to interfere in Algeria's internal affairs, where the latter last Thursday approved a list condemning the human rights situation in Algeria, which the Algerian Foreign Ministry considered "rudeness" It has threatened to review its relations with EU institutions.
On the other hand, continued demonstrations in the capital, Algiers, rejecting the organization of the presidential elections and demanding the removal of all symbols of the former regime, where about two thousand students accompanied by citizens on the forty-first day in a row.
Students marching through the streets of the capital chanted slogans such as "This year Macanch (no) election" and "no election with the gangs."
Protesters refuse to oversee the presidential election, symbols of Bouteflika's 20-year-old regime, and demand new transitional bodies.
Five candidates, all of whom at one time in power during or during Bouteflika's rule, ran for the elections, making them unacceptable.
The elections will take place amid a split in the Algerian street between supporters who consider it inevitable to overcome the crisis since the outbreak of the popular movement on February 22, and opponents who see the need to postpone, and demand the departure of the rest of the symbols of the Bouteflika regime, warning that the elections will be "a way to renew the regime itself" .