Bouteflika agrees to hand over power to elected president - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

‘s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has agreed to hand over power to an elected president. This means the opposition will be allowed to take part in the cabinet that will oversee elections. The changing political landscape comes amid massive protest led by thousands of students.

“President Abdelziz Butaflika has pledged that he will not be a candidate in the and has pledged that he will hand over the presidency to the person that the Algerian people will elect with full transparency and freedom as the new president of People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria.” “We support these plans, we count on that it will help stabilise the situation in this friendly state through a national dialogue based on the Algerian constitution, and of course, with the respect of international law and UN Charter by all of the interested nations.”“This election will be organised by an independent national electoral commission, the first time in the history of Algeria.

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