New Algerian Prime Minister Noureddine Badawi said on Sunday he would form a temporary technocratic government of experts and young people to work for political change in response to weeks of protests and urged the opposition to join the dialogue.
In his first press conference since his appointment, Badawi presented his plans to his deputy Ramtan Lamamra in Algiers three days after President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced he would not run for a fifth term in office after a 20-year term.
Badawi said: "This government will have a short period of its role is to be a support for the national symposium, which agreed by the Algerians." He said his new government would be formed early next week.
"As for the government, we are in the process of forming and consulting with regard to them and we honestly say that this formation will be a variety representing all the energies, especially the Shabanis, from the daughters and sons of our country to be in the level of these aspirations expressed by the Algerian citizen."
He said an independent committee would oversee the upcoming presidential elections.
The prime minister urged the opposition to accept dialogue. But lawyers and activists chosen by the protesters to lead reform efforts do not want to bargain and say they will not negotiate, or at least not for now.