The resignation of Algeria's leader after protests has inspired activists in the region
Hundreds of thousands of Algerians had taken to the streets in recent weeks demanding longtime leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika resign. AFP/File/RYAD KRAMDIThe resignation of Algerian leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika after huge protests has inspired activists in the region, but looks unlikely to spark a repeat of the Arab Spring uprisings.
“Congratulations to every Algerian and may we see each Arab country and its people free,” wrote blogger Abderahman Mansour. “My Algerian brother, don’t leave the square until the military leaves the politics and government,” he wrote on Twitter.Faced with the show of people power in Algeria, Sisi has warned against the dangers of protesting and on Sunday lamented the “lack of stability” caused by political confrontations.Hamza Meddeb, an independent analyst in Tunisia, said the end of Bouteflika’s 20-year rule “reminds regimes like Egypt that nothing can be taken for granted”.
“What happened in Algeria will give a new energy to the protest movement in Sudan,” Omar el-Digeir, chief of the opposition Sudanese Congress Party, told AFP. “The Algerian and Sudanese protests come on the back of a wave of smaller, political and socio- economic protests since 2011 that suggested that the Middle Eastern counterrevolution amounted to putting a lid on a pot that could boil over at any moment,” said James Dorsey, a senior fellow at Singapore’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies.
“But the difference in Algeria, is that the security forces, having the memory of the 1900s, were not too keen to act, whereas other regimes, could conclude that these movements should be forcibly suppressed.”
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