Louiza Hanoune: “Bouteflika's speech didn't usher in emergency solutions”

The Secretary General of the Workers' Party, Louiza Hanoune, has affirmed that Algeria is sitting on a volcano, while certain officials are still continuing to follow a brinkmanship policy which could have nefarious repercussions for the country's social cohesion and stability, she argued.

• Louiza Hanoune excoriated the government’s economic revival plan as grossly unbalanced saying that it did not concern all the regions of the country.
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• “There are glaring big disparities at the economic and social level between the major urban centers and the rural regions of the country”, she asserted.
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• The PT Secretary General further criticized the proposed reforms contained in the President’s speech, arguing it did not bring emergency solutions to the manifold problems now besetting the country.
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• Despite the positive nature of the President’s decisions, the latter are not meant to take effect immediately raising the specter of further street protests, she explained.
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• Louiza Hanoune also underlined that her political party was expecting the President of the Republic to lift the ban on protest marches in the capital Algiers and to announce early legislative elections before embarking steadily on the implementation of salutary reforms.
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• She also wondered how the current constitution could be deeply revamped while the current Parliament had lost its legitimacy, as she put it.
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