Demanding a radical change of the system .. student rallies in Algeria

Algerian university students have marched in more than one state, demanding a radical change of regime, and rejecting the July 4 elections.

The students organized a march in front of the Central University in the direction of the Central Post Office, raising slogans that confirm their stand with the demands of the movement and continue to demonstrate until the fall of the remaining "badas". In reference to interim President Abdelkader Ben Saleh and Prime Minister Noureddine Badawi.

Students used to demonstrate every Tuesday since the start of the unprecedented protest movement on 22 February, but this time they took advantage of the student's day on May 19, 1956, when Algerian students left university seats and joined the war of liberation against French colonialism.

The student assembly began in front of the Central University (central Algiers) and tried to organize a march towards the headquarters of the National People's Assembly (parliament), but the police force dispersed them with batons.

The students shouted at the security forces, "Oh, shame, shame," as they tried to escape from the batons, towards the streets adjacent to Zygod Yusef Street where the parliament is located.

Students gathered at the Central Post Square, which became the meeting point of all the demonstrators, chanted "maknash" or "gang" elections (not for the elections, gangs).

The rejection of the elections became an urgent demand for the protest movement, as in the large demonstration every Friday, as expressed by three prominent figures, calling on the military leadership to dialogue.

"How can we imagine an election" organized by "institutions still run by incompetent forces hostile to constructive change?" Asked Ahmed al-Ibrahimi, a former foreign minister, lawyer Ali Yahya Abdel Nour, a fighter for human rights, and retired general Rashid Ben Jils.

Fasting and heat on the 14th of Ramadan did not seem to affect the large mobilization of students, nor did the large deployment of security forces affect the center of the capital.

Since the resignation of President Bouteflika on April 2, the army has returned to a pivotal role in political life, and its chief of staff has been Ahmed Kayed Saleh, the powerful man in the country who served with Bouteflika for 15 years.

This resignation did not calm the anger of the street, which is demanding the departure of all the "regime" inherited from the reign of Bouteflika, who is 20 years in power.