Ammar Saadani Returns To FLN

Former General Secretary of the National Liberation Front (FLN), Ammar Saadani, officially joined the party’s Nominations Committee on November 23, marking the return to the party’s activity 11 months after he left the party and announced his resignation from the post of General Secretariat.

Echorouk learned from the official sources of the National Liberation Front Party that the former General Secretary of the party, Ammar Saadani, joined the Nominations Committee that controls the lists that the party will participate in the upcoming local elections. 

According to Echorouk sources, the party’s leadership of Ammar Saadani is dictated by several factors, including being known as an old activist, and confirmed that the results of the last legislative elections require not to move quickly to develop a strategy that makes the hypothesis of failing nonexistent in the coming elections, especially that his rival the National Democratic Rally scored points in the recent period, as RND after shaking the throne of FLN at the National People’s Assembly and the demilitarization of the absolute majority, and reduced the distance between them on the political arena, it also surpassed and disqualified the leadership of the executive chamber, when President Bouteflika chose his director of presidency office, Ahmed Ouyahia, to succeed Abdelmadjid Tebboune, who is a member of the Central Committee of the Liberation Front Party, which was removed from the leadership of the government after 86 days of taking office.

Saadani, who is one of the most controversial political figures, returns to the party’s activity, specifically to be one of the elements that planned for the local elections, after being absent and did not record any political and media appearance since October 22 of last year, when everyone was surprised of his resignation at a regular session of the Central Committee of the party.

According to observers, Saadani’s return to the front, even if it is through the membership of the Party’s Nominations Committee, is included in the promotion of the ability of the group to control the competitive lists, after the criticism has extended the lists of nominations that brought down the competition to the seats of the lower chamber of parliament, as these lists caused a whirlwind before announcing them because of talk about of attempts to buy and sell lists by some from parties inside FLN and even from outside. 

It is also known that the lists of FLN were criticized even by the former General Secretary, Ammar Saadani, who sent a letter to the leadership of the party criticizing the imbalances in the lists of the party that carried surprises that were not pleasant to some people, and angered even the ministers who found themselves chanting outside the squadron, and some of them refused to lead the lists because of the proposed provinces that are unrelated to it, as happened with the former Agriculture Minister, Abdessalam Chalghoum, who refused to lead the list of Jijel province.

Saadani works with a whole team to study the candidacy files, because the results of the upcoming municipal elections  are of great importance as they come before the most important elections, and this is related to the presidential elections. 

This team includes the party’s General Secretary, Djamel Ould Abbas, and the party ministers such as the former Minister of Health Abdelmalek Boudiaf, former Transport Minister, Boudjamaa Talei, the former Minister of Water Resources, Abdelkader Wali, Minister of Higher Education Taher Hadjar, the former Minister of Agriculture, Abdessalam Chalghoum and the Senator Hachemi Djaiar, as Ammar Saadani joined the group on Monday, with the former Minister of Industry Bada Mahdjoub.

Far from the role that will be played by Saadani in the control of the lists, and the party that imposed his return to FLN’s activity in light of the political movement, which was made by RND’s General Secretary, Ahmed Ouyahia, to send the presidential alliance from the Palace of Government, it is sure that this return will revive the political arena and provoke controversy and conflict again, as Ouyahia promised to revitalize his party’s own campaign.