Goudjil: “Belkhadem wants to flush out genuine FLN party militants, to replace them by those of dissolved FIS party”

The General Coordinator of the Reform Movement, Mr Salah Goudjil, has affirmed that the current FLN party Secretary General, Mr Abdellaziz Belkhadem, is covertly striving to evict genuine FLN militants from the party-ranks by replacing them with those from the disbanded FIS Party.

• Taking the floor Monday at Echorouk’s Forum, Mr Salah Goudjil argued that the party leadership practices “the policy of removal and marginalization”, which opens the door to businessmen and outsiders at the expense of loyal party members, as he put it.
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• He underlined that his movement supported the political reforms announced by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The current FLN leadership claims to back the reforms but is actually doing something else, Salah Goudjil alleged.
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• Furthermore, he accused Belkhadem of deviating from party principles and introducing fraud and cronyism to the FLN, which propelled many to join the dissidents, he said.
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• The ruling party is facing an identity crisis “as a result of adopting a multi-faceted policy, with a discourse that differs at request from one occasion to another”, he asserted.
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• The FLN is also marred by a trust deficit and a management crisis, which “rocked the party’s structures and bodies and brought activists to endless internal conflicts”, Goudjil added. He pinned the blame on the current leadership for the setback the party suffered in previous elections.
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•  Mr Salah Goudjil also said that no one was entitled to speak or decide on behalf of the Algerian electors themselves, referring to recent alarming statements made to the press by some political party figures who raised the specter of a possible landslide  victory by Islamists in next spring’s legislative elections in Algeria.
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