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| Algeria: the opposition in a regional context of democratic thirst |
| 2011-02-14 |
| [Ennahar] The march of the opposition in Algeria for a change of political system has met Saturday a great security device but it comes at a regional desire for democracy that has already defeated the schemes hitherto immutable of Egypt and Tunisia and threats others. Coincidence of history, the event announced on January 21 during the creation of a broad opposition movement, the National Coordination for Democracy and Change (NCCD), took place after the fall of the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, after 29 years of unchallenged power. And if the movement in Algiers, the largest in the country, collected only a few hundred protesters, it has nevertheless been historical, according to the press:" Let's go for change," headlined the liberal daily Liberté. The government daily Al-Mujahid devoted as he never does, for challenging it to an event but to call it a "manifestation of low echo. The planned march of about 4 km in the city could not take place, as an initial manifestation of RCD in Algiers on January 22, due to a ban dating from 2001. The protesters were blocked by some 30,000 police deployed for the occasion in the capital. But "this is just the beginning," assured Fodil Boumal, one of the founders of the NCCD born in the wake of exponential claims. |
| Posted by:Fred |