Party for Justice and Development to boycott local elections, Djaballah says
Head of the Front for Justice and Development, Abdallah Djaballah announced on Tuesday, that his party will boycott the local elections to be held next November, calling those who are “loyal to democracy principles and guarantees of the protection of the nation’s right to choose to boycott”.
“The decision was taken by the Shura Council in all sovereignty, and will not affect the party which joined the majority of boycotters”, he added.
djaballah asserted, in a press conference held at the party’s headquarters in Algiers; “Parties do not have justification to participate in the elections, and the option of boycott was based on a set of data reached by the members of the Shura Council who meet recently, which painted a black scene of the country’s political situation, which has become “distorted”, in addition to continuing what the shura council’s statement described as a constant mentality of exclusion and guardianship, and devotion of state institutions and distortion through corrupting the political arena bdjaballah asserted, in a press conference held at the party’s headquarters in Algiers; “Parties do not have justification to participate in the elections, and the option of boycott was based on a set of data reached by the members of the Shura Council who meet recently, which painted a black scene of the country’s political situation, which has become “distorted”, in addition to continuing what the shura council’s statement described as a constant mentality of exclusion and guardianship, and devotion of state institutions and distortion through corrupting the political arena by broking parties and buying off leaders with willingness to tame, the monopoly of the organization of elections, and rejecting all attempts which call for assigning it to an independent national body, which is granted permission to organize the elections and supervise them, since the electoral boby is called to announce the official results”.
According to the leader of the Front for Justice and Development; “The elections in Algeria, unlike other countries, devote continuity of institutions of authority and spreading chaos and sowing confusion, claiming that they insure for those in power staying and continuity, adding that voices which reject what he described as “a dilemma” should rise, and that he chose to join 80% of boycott instead of 15% which would go to the polls.