The protesters want Bouteflika to step down after 20 years in power, adding momentum to the biggest protests there since the 2011 Arab Spring
Algerian lawyers demonstrate with a national flag outside the constitutional council in a protest against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, on March 7, 2019, in Algiers.Hundreds of lawyers in black robes took to the streets of downtown Algiers on Thursday to press President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to step down after 20 years in power, adding momentum to the biggest protests there since the 2011 Arab Spring.
“The people want to overthrow the regime,” lawyers shouted. “Republic, not a kingdom,” others chanted.Tens of thousands of Algerians, tired of the dominance of elderly veterans of the 1954-1962 war of independence against France, have taken to the streets to urge the ailing president not to stand in an election scheduled for April 18. He has submitted his candidacy papers.
Hundreds of lawyers wearing black robes took to the streets of Algiers to press President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to step down after 20 years in power.He has not spoken in public since suffering a stroke in 2013 and remains in a hospital in Geneva. An anonymous call for a general strike has gone largely unheeded but the leadership faces another test – an online call for a “March of 20 Million” this Friday.
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