The North Africa Journal – 9 April 2018: The possibility of President Bouteflika to run for another term is now increasingly likely. In fact, not only has he received the official endorsement of the ruling FLN party, but he has also toured projects in Algiers, despite being physically challenged and having been out of sight of the public for months. A strong signal as to Bouteflika’s ambition to stay in power is the ruling party National Liberation Front (FLN) urging him to run for a fifth term in 2019. “The choice of running pertains to the President himself, but we at the FLN exhort President Bouteflika to win another term so he started in 1999” said the SG. So Algeria is headed toward continuity, with a physically diminished President likely to face no opposition, perhaps just a symbolic one.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 09, 2018 18:00 UTC