Deep dissentions surfaced between the organizers of the march over leadership

The National Coordination for Change and Democracy has yesterday decided to carry on the organization of peaceful marches in Algiers every week -end defying thus the ban imposed by the local authorities and called on the all parties in the civil society to join them.

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• Talking in a briefing yesterday at the Unions’ house here in Algiers, the members of the Coordination led by the lawyers Ali Yahia Abdennour and Mustapha Bouchachi have acknowledged that their movement was lacking organization, noting that the number of participants was exceeding the one announced by the authorities.
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• The members of the coordination have called on the participants to brush aside their political ideologies as a prior condition to take part to their movement. This is an implicit acknowledgement of the negative impact of the participation of some political parties in the latest march, notably the leader of Rally for Culture and Democracy, Said Saadi who, according to the observers, is the main cause of the failure of the march because his popularity was at the nadir.
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• Ali Yahia Abdennour has declared” The revolution is now in the street and mustn’t stop” echoing the slogan” Throw the revolution to the street and the masses will hug it”.
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• Bouchachi has indicated” The march was successful at the historic, political and media levels, calling for the joining of the other political parties and associations provided that they get rid of their narrow ideological ambitions”.
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• It is worth noting that a conflict brok out between the members of the Coordination and one of the leaders of the Rally for Culture and Democracy, Tahar Besbass, over the declarations made by the representative of the students who, implicitly accused the RCD of manipulating the students in a move to lead the movement .