For the first time .. Islamic opposition leader of the Algerian parliament

The opposition Islamic opposition MP, Suleiman Shanein, was elected on Wednesday evening as chairman of Algeria's National People's Assembly (parliament), replacing National Liberation Front (MPF) MP Moaz Bouchareb who was forced to resign recently under pressure from the popular movement.

Shanein, 54, was elected by acclamation with the support of majority and opposition parties after the ruling National Liberation Front and the National Democratic Party (NDA) withdrew their six candidates for the presidency.

The new president praised the legislative institution in the atmosphere of his election, describing it as a democratic step.

He added that the session comes at a sensitive time going by Algeria, stressing that no team can alone to get it out of the current situation.

Shnein belongs to the National Construction Movement, part of the Alliance of Renaissance, Justice and Building, which includes deputies of three Islamic-oriented parties. This is the first time in the history of the Algerian parliament that a deputy opposition party has been elected to the presidency. Deputies meeting the vacancy of the post on the resignation of Bouchareb.

Shnein is one of the founders of the National Construction Movement in 2013, and until his election as president of the People's National Assembly as president of the Political Council of the Movement, and head of the Union bloc for the renaissance, justice and construction.

Biography of the man
The National Construction Movement said in a media article published on its Facebook website that Chenin has participated in the ongoing movement in Algeria since 22 February and that he participated in marches in the capital and the city of Ouargla (south of the country) from which he is descended.

The movement also identified the new president of the parliament as a writer and journalist, a member of the Association of Parliamentarians for Jerusalem and one of the founders of the General Union of Free Students.

She also notes that Shnein was the personal writer of Sheikh Mahfouz Nahnah, the founder of the Movement for a Society of Peace (HEMES), in which some of them split up to form independent political parties similar to the National Construction Movement.