Bouteflika loses support of Islamists, an inverse scenario on the horizon

Illness of President Bouteflika, since last year, is the first difference that characterizes the Presidential Elections of 1999, 2004 and 2009, as the free candidate Abdelaziz Bouteflika, will enter the race in a seat, sick and unable to manage his campaign, leaving this task to other supporting faces, as a lot of observers to the electoral campaign think that it did not achieve the desired hope of its mission.

For the first time since his candidacy for the Presidential Elections that took place in 1999, Bouteflika lost the large support base, that he enjoyed in the past, both at the political and the party level, or at the level of those who believed to be “the Presidents’ maker”, as it is almost certain that there are those who are called “decision-makers” and who keep reservations on the “fourth term”, according to statements of political figures, who did not hesitate to warn of the risks which threat the country in light of the current data.

Disintegration of what was called the “Presidential Alliance”, which is composed of the National Liberation Front and the National Democratic Rally and the Movement of Society for Peace, was among the most important data that characterize the coming elections, from the three other elections that noticed the victory of President Bouteflika, which means that he will run the coming elections deprived of support of a large segment of the Islamic movement, who prefer to join the boycotters rows.

In light of the political chaos and the unprecedented partisan realignment,  in which the conflict reached the employment of the all means that are permissible and non- permissible in the campaign, which chapters are still continuous, the role of the military institution appears as one of the most important factors that are determining the identity of the coming President, even if this institution is not used to highlight its position in such cases, through official data or statements.