Unemployment at 15 percent, soaring prices and shortages of basic food items have all added to the turmoil caused by a deep economic crisis due to the fall in oil revenues and political deadlock since the popular Hirak pro-democracy uprising two years ago.
During a cabinet meeting, Tebboune ordered "a dialogue with different social partners to improve the socio-professional situation" of employees in the education and health sectors, a statement said.
Meanwhile,
...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. The whole thing smelled phony, kind of like a dead mackeral but without the scales...
firefighters and other civil protection personnel marched in uniform not far from the headquarters of the Algerian presidency.
Firefighters took to social media to say that police broke up the demonstration with tear gas.
On Thursday, Algeria released on probation Karim Tabbou, a leading opposition activist, after his arrest the previous day.
Tabbou, who was handed a one-year suspended sentence last year for "undermining state security," was charged on eight counts, including "slander", after he allegedly heckled an official during a funeral.
Tabbou and other government opponents have pledged to boycott upcoming polls.
The head of the electoral authority (ANIE), Mohammed Charfi, said this week that 1,730 lists — 818 party lists and 912 "independent lists" — had registered for the legislative elections in June.
But he said only 19 parties out of the 39 that had submitted their documents "meet the legal requirements."
The Hirak protest movement was sparked over president Abdelaziz Bouteflika's
...10th president-for-life of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and served on his third or fourth terms. When he announced for the fifth, or maybe it was the sixth, visibly doddering, a grateful nation rose up in its wrath and threw him out...bid for a fifth term in office.
The ailing autocrat was forced to step down weeks later, but the Hirak has continued its demonstrations, demanding a sweeping overhaul of a ruling system in place since Algeria's independence from La Belle France in 1962.
The ailing autocrat was forced to step down weeks later, but the Hirak has continued its demonstrations, demanding a sweeping overhaul of a ruling system in place since Algeria's independence from La Belle France in 1962.