Algeria: "The success of Hirak is in the reappropriation of political speech"

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Demonstrators in the streets of Algiers, October 11, 2019. Ryad KRAMDI / AFP

By: Jean-Baptiste Marot Follow

The Algerians complete this Friday, for the 53rd consecutive week of weekly marches, a year of unprecedented popular protest that will have forced ex-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika to resign but without succeeding in changing the "system" in power since independence. The analysis of historian Karima Dirèche, CNRS research director at the Telemme laboratory in Aix-en-Provence.

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“ There have been successes, like the two postponements of the presidential election. But the [real] success lies elsewhere: it is in the reappropriation of public space, in the reappropriation of political speech, in the reconstruction of social ties. "

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  • Algeria
  • Abdelaziz Bouteflika

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