Soltani: Bouteflika should execute reforms within 8 months

President of the Movement for the Society of Peace (MSP) Abu Djerra Soltani Wednesday gave an 8-month-deadline to Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to execute reforms he had announced in his last speech to the Nation.

• The deadline starts on May 1^st and expires on December 31^st. Soltani asked to give more details about the reforms and determine its priorities.
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• “If President Bouteflika’s reforms do not work, the Movement will stop supporting him,” the MSP’s leader told a news conference in Algiers.
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• Speaking about the constitutional revision, Soltani said the review needs experts in law and does not need a huge number of people.
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• “The Movement refuses to assign occasional persons to manage the constitutional revision commission. Those people do not appear only when the Constitution is amended and then they disappear from the political arena,” he added.
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• He also said the Movement drew eight big political clues in the president’s speech. The president admitted that there were deficiencies which needed to be caught up. He satisfied many demands of politicians by suggesting a reform draft bill. He also gave positive indicators of the hoped reforms and closed the door to those who were asking for Parliament’s dissolution.
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• Soltani enumerated 7 factors which can hinder the president’s reforms. Of them, there are temporisation, reforms monopoly and young people’s marginalisation.
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• He said the coming Constitution should turn the political system in the country into a parliamentary system, limit the presidential mandate into one single term which can be renewable once, dissolve the Council of the Nation, separate between powers, open the audio-visual sector and end the transitional stage.
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• He believes that the continuing social protests show the failure of some officials in the government.
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• He said treating those protests without speeding up the reforms may cause a serious loss of balance in the society’s structure.