That’s why Pt Bouteflika rescinded Charfi’s reshuffle within judicial apparatus

Judicial sources told Echorouk that the main reasons behind President Bouteflika’s decision to freeze the reshuffle movement prepared by former Justice Minister Mohamed Charfi were related to hovering suspicions about the reliability and integrity of those judges included in the nomination roster, with 22 of them deemed as “suspicious” and 17 other “sidelined ones” who were due to be reinstated in their posts.

Just after his appointment as new Justice Minister as part of President Bouteflika’s government shake-up last September, Mr Tayeb Louh’s first decision was to scrap the projected reshuffle which was due to be conducted by his predecessor Mohamed Charfi.

Charfi’s destitution from his ministerial post was the outcome of his intended reshuffle within the judicial apparatus which was turned down by the Presidency of the Republic itself, the same sources added.

Furthermore, Justice Minister Tayeb Louh has drawn up a new nomination list including names of new magistrates with a clean slate who will be allotted positions of responsibility within the judicial apparatus ahead of a broad-based meeting of supreme court judges slated for early next week in Algiers in consistence with article 20 of the Higher Magistrature Council.