In the wake of continuous demonstrations .. Imminent resignation of the Algerian Prime Minister to facilitate the elections

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian Prime Minister Noureddine Badawi will resign soon to facilitate elections this year, two senior sources told Reuters on Tuesday, while the army command confirmed the era of the presidency industry was over.

The departure of Badawi is a key demand of protesters who forced President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to resign in April and refuse to hold new elections until a radical change in the power structure.

Badawi is also one of the "three epidemics" that Harak is demanding to remove. The president of the Constitutional Council, Tayeb Belaiz, resigned last April, a symbol of the Bouteflika regime and one of the pleas that Harak insisted on leaving.

Army chief Lieutenant General Ahmed Qaid Saleh said last week that the election commission should call elections by September 15, a move that would mean a 90-day countdown to voting day.

Mass protests began in February and continued even after Bouteflika stepped down, demanding the departure of all symbols related to him and a reduction in the army's role in state affairs.

Elections were due in July but were postponed due to the current situation, leaving the oil and gas exporting country facing a constitutional crisis.

During the summer, the authorities made concessions by arresting prominent figures linked to Bouteflika on charges of corruption, while intensifying pressure on protesters with strict security measures.

Crown reign
Meanwhile, the army leadership confirmed Tuesday that the era of the presidency industry is over and the people will choose who will lead it in transparent elections.

This came in the editorial of Al-Jaish Magazine, which speaks for the military establishment in its issue issued for the current month.

According to the article, some Alabab trying to disturb the course of the dialogue, by promoting transitional stages to fall into the trap of the constitutional vacuum, and trying to cover the opinion of the flag internally and externally with distorted and poisonous ideas, taking advantage of the legitimate hopes and aspirations of the people.

He continued: It seems that they are ignorant that the era of dictation and the industry of presidents is gone forever.

The military did not say who they meant, but it is known that an opposition political current rejects the military's call for presidential elections before the end of 2019.

The holders of this position call for a transitional phase in which a new constitution is drafted and a constituent assembly is elected to build what they call a new republic.

It is composed mostly of secular and leftist parties and organizations, some of whom are also attributed to the so-called deep state.

This trend is often accused of having influence in the tires of government under the previous era, and was behind the selection of several former presidents, while supporters say that the current army leadership wants to impose a new president by formal elections.