Algeria’s biggest trade union on Tuesday urged President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to seek a fifth five-year term in the latest sign that the octogenarian leader will seek to remain in power despite his ill health. Sidi Said, the secretary-general of the General Union of Algerian Workers, made the endorsement before a gathering of 2,000 workers marking Labor Day. Bouteflika, who uses a wheelchair and suffered a stroke in 2013, also issued a statement on Tuesday arguing,“Nobody … can deny Algeria’s achievements in the last two decades in all the fields of development and reforms.” Read More
Algeria’s biggest trade union urges Bouteflika to seek fifth term
Algeria’s biggest trade union on Tuesday urged President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to seek a fifth five-year term in the latest sign that the octogenarian leader will seek to remain in power despite his ill health. Sidi Said, the secretary-general of the General Union of Algerian Workers, made the endorsement before a gathering of 2,000 workers marking Labor Day. Bouteflika, who uses a wheelchair and suffered a stroke in 2013, also issued a statement on Tuesday arguing,“Nobody … can deny Algeria’s achievements in the last two decades in all the fields of development and reforms.” Read More
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