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2019-06-03 Africa North
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Algeria's constitutional council cancels presidential election
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[Al Jazeera] Algeria's constitutional council has said it will be impossible for it to hold elections to choose a successor to ousted President Abdelaziz  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....
early next month as planned after the only two candidates were rejected.
The council said in a statement on Sunday that it rejected "the candidates' applications" and subsequently declared "the impossibility of holding presidential elections on July 4".
It did not set a new date for the presidential election, asking interim President Abdelkader Bensalah to organise a vote at a later date, state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said.
The move will likely extend the rule of the interim president, who was meant to stay only until the vote to elect a new president after Bouteflika ended his 20-year rule in the wake of mass protests.
Bensalah, the former upper house speaker, had been appointed as interim leader until July 9.
Demonstrations have since continued, with protesters demanding Bensalah's resignation and an end to the dominance of the elite who have ruled Algeria since it won independence from La Belle France in 1962.
"Algerians have protested for 15 weeks, we are heading towards a sixteenth week of protests so the issue here is Bensalah has to listen to the protesters," said Mohammed Kirat, professor of media studies at Qatar
 ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
University.
"Because with the current government and Bensalah and Prime Minister Noureddine Bedoui still in power, there is no way that Algerians will go to vote for a new president," added Kirat. 
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