Nourredine Bedoui Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/nourredine-bedoui/ The low down on African affairs Wed, 11 Sep 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Nourredine Bedoui Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/nourredine-bedoui/ 32 32 Algerian Prime Minister to quit, triggering election https://jjcornish.com/2019/09/algerian-prime-minister-to-quit-triggering-election/ Wed, 11 Sep 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/09/algerian-prime-minister-to-quit-triggering-election/ Algerian government sources say Prime Minister Nourredine Bedoui is about to step down, paving the way for elections by the end of this year. His resignation is one of the major demands of pro-democracy protestors who have been taking to the streets since February. ends intro The fall of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in April has […]

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]]> Algerian government sources say Prime Minister Nourredine Bedoui is about to step down, paving the way for elections by the end of this year.
His resignation is one of the major demands of pro-democracy protestors who have been taking to the streets since February.
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The fall of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in April has not stopped demonstrators demanding that vestiges of his regime be removed from public office and that the army play a far smaller role in politics.
Lieutenant General Ahmed Gael Saleh insists this calls for an election at the earliest possible date.
The resignation of Prime Minister Nourredine Bedoui would enable the electoral commission by the weekend to call an election, triggering a poll within 90 days.

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