Youcef Yousfi: “Sellal is my friend, he respects people of the Aures region”
Youcef Yousfi, interim Prime Minister. Photo: Echorouk
Abdelmalek Sellal is a colleague and a friend, the interim Prime Minister Youcef Yousfi, who belongs to the municipality of Bouzina in Batna (eastern Algeria), said during a sudden work visit to the city, accompanied by the Interior Minister Tayeb Belaiz said on Monday.
“I know his thoughts well, he respects people of the Aures region (Chawis), there is no need to amplify the issue. I paid a work visit to the city and came within the framework of verifying the large project to provide residents of Batna with considerable quantities of water, from Beni Haroune dam to Koudiat Lemdawar dam”, he added.
“I gave orders for the completion of the works at the end of March and the beginning of April to transfer approximately 300 million cubic meters annually for drinking and irrigation, so as to ensure the needs of the population over the next 30 years.”
“With regard to Ghardaia events (southern Algeria), a high-level governmental delegation has taken measures that would allow the return of calm gradually to create a favorable climate that would contributes to the convergence of all parties and coexistence through dialogue and debate”.
Youcef Yousefi paid a sudden visit to Batna, accompanied by the Interior Minister Tayeb Belaiz, in order to ease the atmosphere and omit the effects of aftershocks that were caused by the joke of Bouteflika’s electoral campaign manager Abdelmalek Sellal in the large Aures region (eastern Algeria), especially as he descended from the wilaya of Batna, and is known for being a wise man who has good relations with Sellal and Liamine Zeroual.
A closed meeting is expected to be hold with the dignitaries and representatives of associative movements, as media is excluded from attending it, but several sources confirmed that it aims to absorb the effects of Sellal’s unintended joke and assemble the social class.
News said on Sunday evening about linking contacts with the former President Liamine Zeroual to play the role of the truce.