Ahmed Ouyahia: RND will not be a scapegoat in May 2012 elections

Algiers-Head of the National Rally for Democracy (RND), Ahmed Ouyahia said his party will not be a scapegoat in the upcoming elections.

The current PM and RND party leader, Ahmed Ouyahia added that his party seeks actually to sweep the elections of May 2012, saying it is a legitimate goal.

Speaking at the conclusion of the 5^th session of the National Council of RND organized at the Association of Construction Workers in Zeralda, Ouyahia asserted that his party has the right to sweep May elections, adding that this is the priority of the party.

“RND will participate in these elections with all the sports spirit, however; this does not mean that it will be the scapegoat”, he explained.    

The spokesman’s talk means that RND is not only ready to participate but will work hard to avoid being sacrificed in the coming elections, as happened in the elections of 2002, when FLN won the majority of votes and RND lost its position although it was invoked during the crisis in 1997.

Speaking at the 5^th session of RND, Ouyahia’s statement attacked the parties which opposed the laws on reforms, describing their positions as an organized campaign against laws relating to reforms, in a clear reference to his former partner in coalition MSP and other parties which opposed and criticized the reforms such as the Labor party, the National Movement of Renaissance and Reform and the Algerian National Front.

RND statement also condemned, what it described, the advertising by some parties that have no agenda and program, saying that their criticism is sterile and do not convince people to vote because it challenged the results of coming elections even before voters decide whom to choose as their president.

The criticism by RND is directed to its partner in the coalition FLN led by Abdelaziz Belkhadem before May elections and distribution of numbers, quotas and ratios.