Ben Younes: “Parties seek to create problems between Bouteflika and army”

Recent elections proved a decline of Islamism, because the country passed the stage of political Islam, Head of the Algerian Popular Front, Amara Ben Younes said on Monday.

“Those who are trying to create problems between the President and the army are playing with fire, and they want to drag the country towards insecurity or instability. I am fully ready toconclude alliances at the municipal level with the parties that are existing in the government only”.

Ben Younes launched a fierce attack on parties which raised the issue of the participation of the regime’s parties in the elections, and accused them of seeking to create a chasm between the president and the army, adding that just raising the issue is very serious, and those who stand behind it have historical accounts with the army back to the nineties, saying: “I call upon officials of those parties to desist from this idea and use wisdom “, in an allusion to the Islamic parties, asserting that the legislative elections proved that the Islamic trend has little presence, because the country was able to overcome the stage of politicizing the Islamic religion.

“Constitution appointed the president as commander in chief of the armed forces, and gives the right to the army to vote in favor of any party, but those who accuse the army of receiving instructions to vote in favor of FLN ,should provide the evidence. I was always talking about an Algerian Spring, because what is happening in Tunisia, Syria and Egypt today, was experienced by Algeria in the nineties”.

Amara Ben Younes refused to reply to Soltani, who criticized the results of the local elections, arguing that he is one of the people who know the secrets of the power, and with respect to the recent statements of Louisa Hanoune , he said that the campaign is over and time of accusations ended, and the parties which retrieted, should search for reasons instead of attacking his young party.

“My alliances will be in the light, and I will support Bouteflika if he will be candidate for the fourth custody, because people likes him, and he is neither Ben Ali nor Moubarak nor Gaddafi, with evidence of political freedom and media that we see in the country. The failure to identify presidential custodies, does not contradict with democracy. Leaders of political parties have spent more than five custodies as heads of parties, and some MPs currently go for a fifth custody”.