The leader of the opposition Algerian Workers Party has canceled his candidacy for the presidential elections

2024-07-13 23:40:42

MADRID, July 14 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Algerian opposition member and leader of the Algerian Workers Party (PT), Louisa Hanoune, announced this Saturday that she withdrew her nomination for the presidential elections on September 7, citing “unfair conditions” and ” reform and democratic legislative process. “

“We have registered and analyzed (…) the decisive decision to remove us from the Election and, therefore, to take our freedom to present ourselves as candidates, thus pressing on the right of citizens to choose freely between programs ,” attacked the leader of the establishment in a statement published on the social network Facebook.

After a surprise meeting of the party’s political committee, the former leader of the protest group Hirak – which demanded the renewal of the political system inherited from the National Liberation Front (FLN) – has confirmed that the PT will not present itself in the elections. they will not participate in the election campaign and will not exercise their right to vote.

“Political conditions have been imposed to prevent our participation. The PT cannot be part of the electoral process that does not have the full right to freedom to present itself as a candidate without discrimination and, therefore, does not allow citizens to use their freedom,” Hanoune explained.

This announcement comes after Algeria’s president, Abdelmayid Tebune, announced this Thursday that he is running for a second term in the elections, ending months of speculation about whether he will run for re-election.

Hanoune has also justified this decision by referring to the “campaign of hell and chaos” due to a digital control system implemented “without prior testing”, which has ended “without” thousands of citizens from exercising their political rights .

Therefore, he has warned that “this is a popular political problem, not a technical one, of unprecedented weight”, arguing that the next elections “should mark a break with the practices of the past”, noting “unbelief and “Popular misunderstanding” has shown an “unprecedented” drop rate since 2019.

That year, the current president of Algeria won the presidential elections with 58.13 percent of the votes in elections in which the participation rate did not touch 40 percent, the lowest number recorded in the country.

“For us, it is important to fight for the full restoration of democratic freedoms so that the Algerian people can use their government and establish a true democracy with a content of political, economic and social freedom,” defended Hanoune.

The representative of the PT has assured that the group “will continue to be on the side” of the Algerians, “the true force of change”, who has called to “change the course of events (…) start (their) Hopes political, economic and cultural through unified integration”.