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The appeal of Abderrazak Makri, president of the Movement for Society and Peace (MSP), to a post-Bouteflika "political transition" conducted under the aegis of the army was dismissed. Ahmed Gaïd Salah, chief of the Algerian army's staff was clear: "The army receives its orders from the president."
It's "no" The initiative led by Abderrazak Makri – the president of the MSP presented as a presentable Islamist – who called on the army to sponsor a five-year "political transition" before reaching a national consensus, was rejected by the latter.
According to Ennahar TV, a national private channel, Ahmed Gaïd Salah, Deputy Minister of Defense and Chief of Staff of the Algerian Army, said the military institution "can not be involved in this kind of partisan logic and political dealings and that she knows her constitutional prerogatives ". He added that "the army received its orders from the President and Chief of the Armies Abdelaziz Bouteflika and the Minister of Defense."
"Political and Partisan Impbades"
In this declaration, delivered during the ceremony in honor of the best graduates of the army in the 2018 vat held at the Ministry of Defense, Ahmed Gaïd Salah also called on officers not to get involved in what he described as "political and partisan dead ends" ". It is "strange, irrational, even unacceptable, that at each electoral event, some will voluntarily move away from the political exercise," he also said.
According to several sources, the president of the MSP, opponent Abdelaziz Bouteflika's candidacy for a fifth term, had in recent weeks established contacts with senior officials in the army. Abderrazak Makri even mentioned the existence of "military officers unfavorable to the current status quo."
We demand that, this time, the military institution keep its word and be the guarantor of neutrality
The president of the MSP reacted almost instantly to the statement of the chief of staff. And with a smile. "This is exactly what we are looking for: that the army does not interfere in politics, because its intervention during previous elections has been proven. We ask that this time, the military institution keeps its word and is the guarantor of neutrality, "he said on the sidelines of a meeting in honor of the founder and spiritual leader of the MSP, Mahfoud Nahnah organized in Algiers.
Makri said he believes that no political party can govern alone after the presidential election of 2019. He also said that he "does not claim, at this stage of [sa] approach, the departure from Bouteflika ", because its primary objective is to" unite "around its idea of national consensus. However, he was careful to recall that he was already opposed to the fourth term of the Algerian president.
The political death of the Makri initiative
By his statements, predictable, the Chief of Staff sign the political death of the Makri approach, badimilated by the National Liberation Front (FLN) to a putsch against Bouteflika, whose candidature for a fifth term is looming more and more insistently, despite the oppositions. [19659007ItisanattempttotrainthearmyagainstthePresidentoftheRepublic!
Last week, already, the general secretary of the FLN, Djamel Ould Abéss, had indeed refused to consider the idea to engage a a five-year "transition" period, sponsored by the military, during which power, opposition, unions and civil society should reach a national consensus.
"This is an attempt to train the army against the President of the Republic! ", Then accused Djamel Ould Abbots. And the secretary general of the FLN summarize his vision of the project of "political transition" of the leader of the MSP in one sentence: "Get down so that I can settle there."
The idea of a transition period as proposed by the MSP has also not found favor in the eyes of the Algerian People's Movement (MPA), nor those of the Front of Socialist Forces (FFS). It remains to know the position of the National Democratic Rally (RND), chaired by the current Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia, expected Sunday. But there is little doubt that the RND has already shown its support for a fifth term of office of Abdelaziz Bouteflika
From the opponent to the proponent of a transition negotiated with the government
Abderrazak Makri He likes to repeat that he is not serving any clan and that he will not be satisfied with a jump-seat in the state institutions or the government. In the wake of the "Arab Spring", the MSP leaves the presidential alliance, fueling the ambition to gain power by the strength of the polls after the legislative elections in May 2012, as was achieved by Islamist parties in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya
His anti-Bouteflika position quickly became radicalized. His party joined the National Coordination for Freedoms and Political Transition (CNLTD), born in the wake of the challenge against the fourth term of Bouteflika, in 2014.
Makri is accused by members of the CNLTD to mint posts of ministers for his party
Within the CNLTD sit political parties – such as the Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD), Ennahdha and Jil Jadid – as well as personalities like the economist and former head of government Ahmed Benbitour or the human rights activist Yahia Abdenour. The MSP quickly became the leader of this movement, which he torpedoed a few months later.
The proponent of a consensual candidacy of the opposition for the presidential then turns quickly into a fervent defender of an exit negotiated crisis with the power in place. Makri is accused, among other things, by members of the CNLTD of paying for ministerial positions for his party by meeting in July 2014 with Ahmed Ouyahia, the chief of staff of the presidency
In June 2015, this is the break. Djilali Sofiane, president of the Jil Jadid party, slams the door of the CNLTD, accusing Makri of having denied the founding principle of coordination: a total break with the system.
These suspicions, old, are confirmed more when the 10 last May, Makri seized the opportunity of the seventh congress of his political party to insist on "the imperative for the Islamist movements to be in power". The audience is dumbfounded, as the leader of the MSP has always preferred opposition to participation in government.
In case of failure of the national consensus initiative, Makri already has his strategy, which he has entrusted the contents to a relative: "If Bouteflika is decided to seek a fifth mandate, my initiative will join all other abortions. And at that time, we must demand, parties and civil society, guarantees for the transparency of the next presidential election. "
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