New prime Minister endorses the president’s candidacy

The third meeting of the Democratic National Rally party yesterday held in Algiers brought together numerous outstanding figures in the political scene being national and foreign ones, led by the head of the senate and the parliament as well as other parties’ representatives.

• The outgoing Prime Minister and National Liberation Front party leader, Abdelaziz Belkhadem was the great absent during this political event due to his trip for pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, but was represented by his media specialist in the party, Said Bouhedja.
• The presence to the proceedings of the security adviser of the former president Lyamine Zeroual and retired General Mohammed Betchine, was hailed by many interveners at the opening session. Betchine is one of the founding fathers of the party.
• As usual, the party’s general secretary, Ahmed Ouyahia reiterated his total support, and by extension his party, to the president’s program and called for a third presidential term… “We endorse the president’s program, our brother Abdelaziz Bouteflika , and support him inside the governmental institutions and also within the presidential coalition ; we will be by his side especially during the big political events ahead”, he said.
• Even if he didn’t specify the nature of the political events, experts understood that this one was hinting to the revision of the constitution which will enable the president to run for presidency for a third term.
• The Financial embellishment is a lure
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• M Ouyahia seized the opportunity to send a message to the previous Prime Minister in which he implicitly criticized his predecessor’s program when he talked about the so called “financial embellishment” which he penned as an “illusion”, adding in this respect that the state’s expenditures surpassed the treasury’s incomes.
• He staunchly criticized the previous government’s decision to increase salaries arguing that this move doesn’t correspond to the national policy of wages, sustaining his idea with the possibility of a shortage in case of a sudden oil prices’ retreat.