Amar Saidani: “The Prime Minister isn’t a “walk on” and Parliament wasn’t created just for clapping”

The FLN Party Secretary General, Amar Saidani, has announced the official kick off of the preparations for the tenth Congress of the FLN Party, whose date will be set in the coming days after the completion of the ongoing proceedings at the grassroots provincial level.

He indicated that the latter would be finalized to coincide with the revision of the Constitution, which will be announced “soon”, as he put it.

Amar Saadani is formal: What has been said and written about the new 

Constitutional revision must be regarded as “interpretations” and “personal efforts”, he stressed. 

“The Constitution will be duly reviewed, he further underscored. Now has a   copy been to the State officials? He said he wasn’t able to answer this outstanding question. 

It could be the last rough copy of the revamped fundamental law document, he said during a press conference, held Wednesday, April 15, at the end of a meeting of the political Bureau of the FLN party in Algiers.

According to Mr Amar Saadani, President Abdellaziz Bouteflika will unveil his constitutional project “shortly”.

In his address, the FLN party leader insisted on the claims of the FLN for  the new Constitution, including the composition of a Government stemming from the majority. 

“We demand a political government led 100% by the political majority. 

Now, if the Head of state opts for another formula, we will of course accept it, while recalling our claim,” he said.

Amar Saadani  further  asserted that he was also favourable to the idea of a Government headed by a “coalition”. 

What will be the position of the FLN party if the President of the Republic keeps a technocrat Government after the constitutional overhaul? “We have led the country on behalf of the FLN since 1962 and we haven’t said anything”. “The FLN Party puts the supreme interests of the country above everything”, Amar Saidani replied.

But Amar Saadani seems convinced that the standing claim of the FLN 

party will be taken into account in the new Constitution.

Moreover, the FLN party leader affirmed that the new Constitution will provide for the balance between powers. These balances will be translated by the appointment of a head of Government stemming from of the majority with broad prerogatives, he underlined. 

“We must stop with pottering about. We must cease designating a Prime Minister without prerogatives, nor power”, he 

advocated.

Amar Saadani also revealed without providing details, that the President of the Republic is going to yield a few “of his  prerogatives” to the head of the Government as part of the revision of the country’s fundamental law

Finally, the FLN leader once again excoriated the opposition which boycotted the long-drawn out consultations on the revision of the Constitution.