20 Political Parties Unified Positions over the Parliament's “Legitimacy”

Head of the Front for Change, Abdelmadjid Menasra, announced Friday, on a meeting of 20 political parties, at the headquarters of the Front for Justice and Development, headed by Abdallah Djaballah, to prepare a draft for a common ground that would determine how to deal with the new parliament, and the results of the elections as well.

Menasra added, at the opening of the works of the his party’s meeting, that the meeting will be dedicated to unifying visions and attitudes, and will be organized by the Front for Justice and Development, which is part of this new bloc, resulting from legislative elections that were described by the parties as forged, and aiming to Coordinate efforts ‭in the framework of a‭ common work including the‬ unification of their positions towards ‭the results of the elections.

Previously, these political parties held a meeting at the headquarters of the Algerian National Front, which brought together ten parties, announcing the boycott of the new parliament meetings, protesting against the results of the elections that were unfair, as they said following the disclosure of results by the Interior Minister.

Some of the 20 parties which will meet on Monday, Menasra stated, the Front for Change, the Front for Justice and Development, the Movement for Openness, the Party of the New Generation, Al Fadjr Party, Algeria Party, Party for Freedom and Justice and the Algerian National Front.

The spokesman expressed regret over the delay in the accreditation of new parties, and postponing the operation until the final days leading up to the elections, in order to deprive them of much time to prepare for the process and definition of their program, as asserted by Menasra, who believes that Algeria missed an opportunity to peaceful and democratic change, pointing out that the elections had been emptied from their content, and reforms were emptied from their reformist content.