Bouhadja’s Case Disrupts Parliament, Cancels Meetings With Foreign Ambassadors

National People’s Assembly is meeting on Wednesday to issue an official statement that is calling for the resignation of the head of the lower chamber, Said Bouhadja, which is the second step that the opponents of Bouhadja will resort to after they signed the decision to freeze the activities of the lower chamber, to pressurize him and oblige him to resign.

After the failure of attempts to force the chairman of the People’s National Assembly, Saida Bouhadja, to submit his resignation by freezing the parliamentary blocs that support all of its activities, the opponents of Bouhadja resorted to a new procedure, which is the issuance of a statement on behalf of the Council’s Office that provides for the refusal of its members to work with their chairman.

According to Echorouk sources, FLN’s General Secretary gave approval to his MPs to take this step, although the People’s Assembly office has no legal authority over its chairman.

Same sources added that the meeting is planned to send a message to the President of the Council that the members of the Council do not wish to work with him, and this hours after the deadline that as set up by the majority of MPs to Bouhadja to resign, and which was set by 36 hours, but the latter told his relatives that he will decide about the resignation on Thursday.

In the same context, the Foreign Ministry canceled the meeting, which was expected between the President of the National People’s Assembly, Said Bouhadja, and the Ambassador of Cuba and Tunisia in Algeria, according to the MP Lakhdar Ben Khalaf, who revealed in a statement to the press, on Tuesday that the office of the Council was not aware of the cancellation of the meeting, which was planned to be organized with ambassadors of those countries.

On the other hand, the MP talked about the cancellation of the Foreign Ministry’s meeting with the Ambassador of Japan in the framework of parliamentary activities.

“There was a planned meeting with the Japanese Ambassador at his request, and he sent a letter to the Foreign Ministry and the National People’s Assembly on September 25, but I was surprised by a call from the Embassy of Japan asking to postpone the meeting to another time”, he said.

“We regret the situation of the National People’s Assembly after the decision of a group of MPs to withdraw confidence from Bouhadja and freeze its activities. Such action would affect the prestige of the National People’s Assembly internationally and affect the reputation of Algeria in particular”.

Previously, Ben Khallaf explained, in a press statement, the content of the meeting, which brought him with Said Bouhadja, who confirmed his adherence to his position and refused to resign.