Mokri to Echorouk: “We should be involved in the negotiations between the Presidency and the Army”

The leader of the Islamist MSP Movement, Abderrazak Mokri, has reiterated his party’s recently – announced decision to boycott the next presidential elections slated for April 17th 2014 in Algeria, stressing that the boycott decision was irreversible.

Abderrazak Mokri told Echorouk that MSP movement’s decision to steer clear of the upcoming electoral contest owing to several “logjam” factors was bound to be followed by other parties on the national political scene.

He also denied some rumours that the MSP Party had engaged in behind the scenes negotiations with high spheres of influence about the selection of a political successor of incumbent President Abdellaziz Bouteflika.

Mokri said a bitter power struggle between rival wings of the power establishment about the President’s political future plans had reached a flash point over the past few weeks.

In other to face up to any untoward contingency, the MSP leader pointed out that all political parties should pool efforts and streamline their position by going beyond their differing opinions in order to prevent the country from steeping into anarchy, discord and turmoil which could be unleashed by the current political feuding within rival wings of the regime, as he put it.

Abderrazak Mokri affirmed to the effect that all opposition parties must be involved in serious concertation and dialogue with the authorities concerned with a view to doing away with the creeping and pervasive practice of marginalization, exclusion and fraud for the good of the country as a whole.