Algerian protesters not likely to give up anti-Bouteflika demos

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News ID: 36350
Publish Date: 20:33 - 05 March 2019
TEHRAN, Mar 05 - It was late February when President Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria, 82, announced he sought re-election for a fifth term. But demonstrators on the streets across the country do not favor him any longer, and keep calling for him to quit.

Algerian protesters not likely to give up anti-Bouteflika demosTEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - The elections are scheduled to be held on April 18. Until that day, protesters are apparently not likely to give up demanding resignation of the ailing president.

Bouteflika has been seen in public only a few times since he suffered a stroke in 2013.

Thousands of students from the University of Algiers marched through the streets of the capital on Tuesday. They chanted slogans against Bouteflika.

Protests have been banned in the city center since 2001. Police keep a watchful eye on that area.

In the cities of Oran and Constantine as well as Annaba and Blida similar demonstrations were held on Tuesday.

Source: Press TV

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