Bouteflika... 10th president-for-life of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third or fourth term. Maybe it's the fifth....
to run for a fifth consecutive term, according to local media reports.
Speaking at a party meeting on Saturday, the National Liberation Front's (or FLN by its French acronym) secretary-general, Djamel Ould Abbes, confirmed earlier reports about party and government officials pushing for the ailing president's re-election in next year's vote.
"The executives and elected representatives of the FLN call on the president to continue his mission, started in 1999 as head of the country ... and hope that he will respond favorably to our request, but it is up to him and him alone to decide whether to accept or decline our invitation," Ould Abbes was quoted as saying by the French language newspaper l'Expression.