Bouteflika Research Paper

Although many citizens and political parties were against the idea of Bouteflika seeking a fourth presidential term, many Algerians still had faith in Bouteflika due to his two decades of political rule and his careful management, coercion, and balancing of Algeria’s domestic political competitors and saw him as the father of national reconciliation and continued to vote him for the fourth term. Although Bouteflika won the fourth presidential term, he is up against a battle to keep Algeria’s citizens on his side and keeping the ailing country out of economic difficulties they are currently experiencing due to the slowing economic growth of the European Union, where many of the citizens are still concerned that Bouteflika may not be able to

This past election brought a wave of tension across Algeria due to the fact that there were high numbers of “voting” in favor of Bouteflika, but opposing political parties show evidence of the voting system being rigged in favor of Bouteflika winning another presidential term. Another policy that the government has promised to bring the country to a more consolidated form of government was the changes made in the new constitution, but rather “the new constitution will not fundamentally alter the balance of power” like they had promised to do. Without a change of the balance of power, Algeria will remain the same making no strides to improvements of their economy. This issue plays hand in hand with another issue that is on the rise due to Algeria not making serious strides to changing the polices that they have promised, The president still remains extremely powerful and still concentrates all the power in his hands. This does not balance out the power like seen in a democracy using the United States as an