Algeria: Arabic language to be compulsory in ministries and official institutions soon

Prime minister, Abdelmalek Sellal, is intent on dropping the use of the French language in favor of the Arabic language at the level of ministries and public institutions in the very near future.

This came out in the wake of a relevant instruction addressed of late by the Premiership Office  to these institutions ordering them to use from now onwards Arabic instead of French in their daily correspondence, their appeals and all dealings, by virtue of Arabic being the country’s official language.

The Premiership pledged to extend the use of the Arab language to all the country’s public institutions and of civil status entities in the very near future.

The prime minister said, in response to an oral question at the national people’s assembly from MP Lyès Saâdi, belonging to the National Liberation Front party, and which was read out on his behalf by the Minister in charge of Relations with Parliament, that the government and public authorities are striving to bolster the widespread use of Arabic in all the ministerial departments and public institutions.

This, he said, is as part of the smooth and full implementation of the  law 91/05 in its article III, which calls for the need for the dissemination of the Arabic language in Algeria at all levels.