“Algerian women to hold supreme functions”, President says

Taking the floor yesterday on the occasion of Women’s Day celebrations here in Algiers, Algerian president Abdellaziz Bouteflika announced a brand new measure which consists in earmarking quotas for women for the state’s supreme functions, stressing his will to carry on with his policy aimed at appointing women at the top of functions that were, in a recent past, men’s exclusivity.