Hovering specter of Belkhadem seeking FLN leadership anew fluster party “straighteners”

Opponents of current FLN party Secretary General, Amar Saadani, are striving to secure the needed legal quorum of party militants with a view to convening a new central committee meeting in charge of electing a new party leader who will replace the much controversial Amar Saadani whose bitter political foes want eagerly to bring him down on all accounts.

This group of so-called “straighteners” making up a sizable splinter group within the FLN party are also intent on blocking the way for former party chief Abdellaziz Belkhadem who has of late declared his intention to bounce back at the helm of the FLN party after being dismissed early last year by a majority of central committee members during a vote held to this effect.

 However, reliable sources told Echorouk that the ongoing endeavour launched by this group of so-called “straighteners” within the former single party is facing some constraints and drawbacks concerning the required legal quorum which is far from being reached in order to be able to summon a special central committee meeting.

 The same sources added that a host of influential  party militants had backed out at the last moment and declined to register their names on the roster for the holding of such a meeting aimed primarily at unseating current secretary general, Amar Saadani, just a few weeks before the next presidential elections slated for April 17^th 2014.

 As a direct consequence, an all-out internal leverage is being applied by Amar Saadani’s supporters at various levels of the party layers to preclude such an adverse contingency and spare the current party leadership from falling from its comfortable perch through a fresh and random vote by unpredictable central committee members.