Revise the Constitution, amend the electoral law and political parties, and reform the law of association. These are some of the ads that are committed to working Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, in a televised speech addressed to the nation on Friday night and also spoke of changes in regulations local governments to give them greater autonomy.
A year ago, the perennial Bouteflika rushing to reform the Constitution, but with the goal of being able to stand for a third election in his country, the results allowed him to continue attached to his staff of office. This is the first time that the head of state in Algeria leads his people since he came to this country the revolutionary wave sweeping the Arab world and calls for changes in the system and higher levels of democracy.
The objective of the reform of the Constitution that Bouteflika has made public is "to improve the practice of democracy." However, civil society activists in Algeria as Abdelmoumem Khalil, a member of the League of Human Rights, to be undertaken certainly true democratic reform. Speaking to ELMUNDO.
is considered further that the septuagenarian president's speech did not calm the unrest in a country where "multiply daily protests of various social discontent, we have had and hundreds and hundreds injured in the demonstrations that began in early year, and five died in January. " This week, Algiers again become the scene of protests.
This time it was the students who took to the streets of the Algerian capital with slogans like "power murderer" or "the people want a system crash." The protests resulted in more than 150 wounded. Since the demonstrations began in this country, the only reform thrust has been the lifting of the state of emergency was introduced in February 1992 as a brake on the Islamists.
Bouteflika had said recently that it would open a "new page" to "comprehensive reforms and policies." To do this, will now, as announced in his speech, a committee that "I will make proposals and whether they conform to the fundamental values of our society will be subject to the approval of Parliament or by referendum." A committee will be invited, according to the president, political parties that are outside the parliamentary spectrum, as well as civil society activists.
Bouteflika is with this gesture the way of his neighbor Maghreb, Morocco, where King Mohamed VI announced on March 9 a constitutional reform to give more powers to the prime minister and Parliament, as well as working for an independent judiciary. Alawi King also launched a commission. Although neither this court nor the reforms they promised have been used to block protests by young people opposed the February 20, to continue their demonstrations to demand a parliamentary monarchy and higher levels of democracy.
The next big event has been convened for 24 this month. 
A year ago, the perennial Bouteflika rushing to reform the Constitution, but with the goal of being able to stand for a third election in his country, the results allowed him to continue attached to his staff of office. This is the first time that the head of state in Algeria leads his people since he came to this country the revolutionary wave sweeping the Arab world and calls for changes in the system and higher levels of democracy.
The objective of the reform of the Constitution that Bouteflika has made public is "to improve the practice of democracy." However, civil society activists in Algeria as Abdelmoumem Khalil, a member of the League of Human Rights, to be undertaken certainly true democratic reform. Speaking to ELMUNDO.
is considered further that the septuagenarian president's speech did not calm the unrest in a country where "multiply daily protests of various social discontent, we have had and hundreds and hundreds injured in the demonstrations that began in early year, and five died in January. " This week, Algiers again become the scene of protests.
This time it was the students who took to the streets of the Algerian capital with slogans like "power murderer" or "the people want a system crash." The protests resulted in more than 150 wounded. Since the demonstrations began in this country, the only reform thrust has been the lifting of the state of emergency was introduced in February 1992 as a brake on the Islamists.
Bouteflika had said recently that it would open a "new page" to "comprehensive reforms and policies." To do this, will now, as announced in his speech, a committee that "I will make proposals and whether they conform to the fundamental values of our society will be subject to the approval of Parliament or by referendum." A committee will be invited, according to the president, political parties that are outside the parliamentary spectrum, as well as civil society activists.
Bouteflika is with this gesture the way of his neighbor Maghreb, Morocco, where King Mohamed VI announced on March 9 a constitutional reform to give more powers to the prime minister and Parliament, as well as working for an independent judiciary. Alawi King also launched a commission. Although neither this court nor the reforms they promised have been used to block protests by young people opposed the February 20, to continue their demonstrations to demand a parliamentary monarchy and higher levels of democracy.
The next big event has been convened for 24 this month.
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