Ali Kafi: “I will boycott the ongoing consultations on political reforms”

The former President of the Higher State Council (HCE), Ali Kafi, says he will boycott the ongoing consultations on political reforms in Algeria required by the President of the Republic, Mr Abdellaziz Bouteflika.

• The former President of the Higher State Council (HCE), Ali Kafi, says he will boycott the ongoing consultations on political reforms in Algeria required by the President of the Republic, Mr Abdellaziz Bouteflika.
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• The announcement comes in the wake of a statement by the official spokesman of the consultation commission, Mr Ali Boughazi who declared that the former Algerian Presidents would be received in an another framework outside the commission chaired by the chairman of the council of the nation, Mr Abdelkader Bensalah.
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• Announcing his boycott, Mr Ali Kafi stressed that he would shun the current consultations held by the Bensalah commission on political reforms.
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• The former President of the Higher State Council (HCE) between 1992 and 1994 justified his non-participation by the lack of a genuine political dialogue stressing that these consultations were only a ploy used by the regime to play for time, as he put it.
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