Rekindled legitimacy crisis within the FLN Party referred to the State Council
After the holding of the Tenth Congress of the FLN party in late May and which designated Amar Saadani as the Party’s Secretary General, some commentators argued that the crisis legitimacy besetting the former single party had wrapped up after a year and a half of internecine conflict, and that supporters of ousted Abdelaziz Belkhadem will return home in so much as the President of the Republic and the ANP Army stood by the side of Amar Saadani against all odds.
But after two months and ten days of the staging of the 10th FLN Party Congress, the party’s dissident wing led by Abderrahmane Belayat is now intent on calling into question the legitimacy of the outcome of the congress and the re-election of Amar Saadani to the top rostrum of the FLN party arguing that the latter lacked all legitimacy and credibility, as he put it.
Sources told “Echorouk” that Abderrahmane Belayat, taking advantage of the current absence of FLN leadership from the political arena, lodged on Saturday a formal complaint before the state council in the hope of seeing the latter repeal by virtue of the law the outcome of the tenth FLN Party Congress and by the same token the re-election of Amar Saadani as party leader.
Belayat’s dissident wing is striving to unseat Saadani and his close inner circle in order to retrieve the helm of the party and “restoring its credibility and legitimacy”, as they put it, to make it a potent force to be reckoned with on the national political scene.
To substantiate his argument, Abderrahmane Belayat referred to the total lack of response by the current FLN leadership to the recent provocative and offending remarks against Algeria made by former French President Nicholas Sarkozy while on a visit to neighbouring Tunisia.