Algerians manifest in the four corners of the world, against the presidential election

Despite a crackdown on demonstrations which, according to Amnesty International, « intensified » in the run-up to 12 December, the protest shows Friday that it remains massively mobilized against the polls, for which the power claims to see « a popular momentum.

The participation, impossible to estimate precisely because of the absence of official counting, seems comparable to that of November 1 – when the march coincided with the 65th anniversary of the beginning of the war of independence – and those of the most major events in March, April and May.

The movement (« Hirak ») believes that the presidential December 12 only aims to allow this same « system » to regenerate. « No backtracking, » « No vote, we swear we will not stop, » we heard as the human tide set off, in the early afternoon, for a 42nd consecutive Friday of mobilization in the center of the capital and in the whole world, to the sound of youyous women.

Speaking for the first time on a Friday since the beginning of « Hirak », the head of the army spoke in a speech « a crucial and important deadline, namely the presidential elections of December 12 which will, thanks to the help from Allah the Almighty, an election festival, through which the will of the people is realized « .

After having obtained in April the resignation of Abdelaziz Bouteflika, president during 20 years, the popular movement of protest which agitates the country since February demands the dismantling of the totality of the « system », in power since the independence of the country in 1962 .

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