The two sides have begun organizing around separate plans for a transition of power.
By Tamer El-Ghobashy Tamer El-Ghobashy Baghdad bureau chief focusing on Iraq's politics, security and the fight against the Islamic State Email Bio Follow March 19 at 2:57 PM An emerging coalition of Algerian opposition figures Tuesday rejected President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s plan to remain in office while overseeing a political transition from his 20-year rule, echoing the demands of street protesters that he step down next month.
Last week, Bouteflika, 82, said he would drop his reelection bid and postponed elections set for April 18. That move unleashed a wave of euphoria throughout the country that has since turned into a renewed round of street protests demanding he leave immediately. Lavrov said Russia was concerned by the protests and suggested they were the result of interference by foreign nations that he did not name, according to the Reuters news agency. Lavrov endorsed the plan detailed by Lamamra that would see presidential elections held after a new constitution is ratified.
“There is an urgent need to make radical changes of the system in place with new personnel,” the group said in a statement released Tuesday. It amplified the central themes of the street protests, including frustrations with high youth employment, corruption and an economy battered by low oil prices.
In its statement, the National Coordination for Change said Algeria’s military and security services should “ensure their constitutional missions without interfering in the political choices of the people.”
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