{"id":399264,"date":"2019-03-13T05:12:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T04:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/algerian-regime-pledges-fraudulent-political-transition-as-strikes-spread\/"},"modified":"2019-03-13T05:12:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T04:12:45","slug":"algerian-regime-pledges-fraudulent-political-transition-as-strikes-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/algerian-regime-pledges-fraudulent-political-transition-as-strikes-spread\/","title":{"rendered":"Algerian regime pledges fraudulent political \u201ctransition\u201d as strikes spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Algerian regime pledges fraudulent political \u201ctransition\u201d as strikes spread<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Will Morrow<br \/>\n    <br \/>12 March 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>As mass strikes spread across Algeria for the second day, the regime issued a statement in the name of figurehead president Abdelaziz Bouteflika yesterday evening, postponing elections indefinitely and pledging that Bouteflika will not seek a fifth term.<\/p>\n<p>The regime\u2019s announcement is a fraud, meeting none of the demands of the workers and youth. While it claims Bouteflika will not stand again for re-election, this is to be achieved by extending his current term indefinitely. Elections previously scheduled for April 18 are to be postponed to at least after 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The regime will appoint what it calls an \u201cinclusive and independent national conference,\u201d which is to draft a new constitution and set the date for new elections. An unspecified \u201cgovernment of national unity is to be formed.\u201d Bouteflika\u2014a political corpse who has not spoken publicly since a 2013 stroke and is widely seen as a figurehead for the ruling cabal in the military, security services and his family\u2014is to oversee the new \u201cconstitutional institutions to ensure they adhere scrupulously to the accomplishment of their mission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter states that the postponement of elections is aimed at \u201cappeasing tensions that have been revealed in order to open the way to generalised peace, quiet and public security.\u201d It adds that the reshuffling of Bouteflika\u2019s cabinet and a change in prime minister \u201cconstitute an adequate response to the expectations you have placed upon me.\u201d These are implicit threats that an escalation of the strikes and demonstrations will be met with fierce repression.<\/p>\n<p>Gen. Gael Salah was reported to be in the discussions prior to last night\u2019s announcement&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/03\/12\/alge-m12.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Algerian regime pledges fraudulent political \u201ctransition\u201d as strikes spread By Will Morrow 12 March 2019 As mass strikes spread across Algeria for the second day, the regime issued a statement in the name of figurehead president Abdelaziz Bouteflika yesterday evening, postponing elections indefinitely and pledging that Bouteflika will not seek a fifth term. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-399264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}