Four rival political wings battle for FLN party’s leading rostrum

Four rival political wings within the FLN party are currently waging a bitter internecine struggle with the aim of taking over the post of secretary general of the party now occupied by Amar Saâdani after last year’s much controversial elections according to his bitter foes.

Saâdani’s supporters have been taken aback by this internal revolt waged by fellow party members especially after receiving earlier this week an official document from the state council confirming the validity of the nomination late last year by the FLN central committee of Amar Saâdani at the head of the former single party.

However, the latter’s opponents are still striving to bring him down from the leadership rostrum with notably the Belayat wing announcing that it had succeeded in achieving the legally-required quorum for the convening of a fresh central committee meeting charged with electing a new party secretary general in all fairness and transparency.

Well-informed sources told Echorouk that former FLN Party leader, Abdellaziz Belkhadem, who was forced to forsake his past after a long-running internal clan struggle last year, had secured the formal backing of between 100 and 140 central committee members including some stalwarts within the party which could allow him to get out of his current political wilderness and to bounce back at the helm of the party.

 Another power-hungry wing represented by Abdelkarim Abada and Mohamed Seghir Kara is also lobbying within the various layers of the party structures including the rank and file in a bid to catapult their chosen “protégé” to the much-coveted post of secretary general, the same sources added.