Algeria: Bouteflika sets 3-month-deadline to end reforms

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika fixed deadlines to cabinet to pass new draft laws. The prime ministry and the People’s National Assembly (APN) received a notification about the necessity of passing the new draft bills in the next autumn session.

• President Bouteflika stressed the necessity of increasing rental housing share as part of the housing programme.
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• According to sources, the interior and housing ministries received orders to reduce administrative procedures for people who want to acquire houses through the Housing National Fund. The deadline if June 1^st.
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• The housing ministry will have to launch consultation about housing policy in the same month. This is meant to reach transparency and fairness in public housing procedures. The ministry raised the share of this form as part of the five-year-plan to 1 million housing units from 800,000. Of them, 410,000 are in the process of construction in an urgent way.
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• Those deadlines show that Bouteflika wants to finish with those issues by the end of the first semester in 2011.