Many students demonstrated Tuesday in Algiers to demand the departure of the power of "thieves" and "traitors" related to the regime of ousted president Abdelaziz Bouteflika. They also demonstrated unequivocally in other university cities in Algeria, according to the TSA news website and social networks. In Algiers, most of the procession dispersed in the calm at the beginning of the afternoon.
In the center of the capital, several thousand students, gathered in front of the Great Post Office, building became the rallying point of the Algerian demonstrations, managed to force, without violence, several ropes of police to join the headquarters of the People's Assembly National Assembly (APN, Lower House of Parliament). While the month of Ramadan, during which the majority of Algerians deprive themselves including eating, drinking and smoking between sunrise and sunset, enters its second week and despite the heat, the mobilization of students in Algiers did not seem to falter.
Mobilization against the "system" inherited from Bouteflika
"You robbed the country, thieves!", Shouted with one voice to the NPC, the students who demonstrate every Tuesday since the beginning of the unprecedented protest movement that Algeria has been witnessing since the 22 February. "FLN, traitors!", We also heard, in reference to the National Liberation Front, the former single party that dominates the political life since independence in 1962. The FLN remains chaired by Abdelaziz Bouteflika, forced to to leave power on April 2, after 20 years at the head of the state, under the combined pressures of the street and the army. The police repelled and blocked on the sidewalks the demonstrators who wanted to block the traffic but no serious clash was found.
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The students, mostly draped in the national flag - green and white, hit by the red star and crescent - also called for "A Civil Status, Not a Military State". Since the resignation of President Bouteflika, the army has returned to the center of the political game and his chief of staff, General Ahmed Gaid Salah, faithful for 15 years of the fallen head of state, is de facto the new man strong of the country. The departure of Bouteflika's power has not calmed the protesters, who claim that of the whole "system" inherited from the fallen head of state and refuse the organization on July 4 of a presidential election to elect his successor.