Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika pledged on Sunday that if he is re-elected president on April 18, he will hold early presidential elections that will determine their history after a "national conference".
"I promise to organize early presidential elections," Bouteflika said in a letter read on his behalf by campaign manager Abdel Ghani Za'alan and broadcast by national television. "I promise to run early elections." The date is determined by a "national conference" to be held after the April 18, .
The letter, which included six measures pledged by Bouteflika after his election, said that "early presidential elections will be organized according to the timetable set by the national symposium" and pledged not to be a candidate for these early elections, which he said would take place in conditions of serenity, freedom and transparency. Scheduled by the National Symposium.
According to the letter, the comprehensive national symposium, which is supposed to take place after the elections, will "discuss, develop and adopt institutional, political, economic and social reforms that will form the basis of the new system of the Algerian national state."
It also included "the holding of a popular referendum on a new constitution that will enshrine the birth of the new republic and the new Algerian regime" and "the immediate implementation of public policies to ensure the redistribution of national wealth in a fairer and fairer manner, and the elimination of marginalization and social exclusion ... as well as effective national mobilization against all forms of corruption" .
The procedures also included "reviewing the election law, including the establishment of an independent electoral organization with sole responsibility for organizing elections."
Bouteflika said in his letter that these commitments "will naturally lead us to the transition of generations in reconciling Algeria." He called on the Algerians "to write a new page in our history by making the election of 18 April the birth of a new Algerian Republic aspired to by the Algerian people."
Bouteflika's candidacy came after hours of intense anticipation of the final picture of the electoral scene, just hours before the polls were due to be closed in April.
Bouteflika has begun the process of depositing his file, where he submitted a permit to his property, one of the most important steps to participate in the presidential race, as the electoral law requires every presidential candidate to declare all his property.
Bouteflika sacked his campaign manager, Abdelmalek Sallal, and replaced Abdelghani Zaalan, 54, after mass protests demanding his candidacy for the April 18 elections in an unprecedented protest movement since he took power 20 years ago.