Algerian Parliament elects first opposition member as president

ALGIERS, JULY
11, (Xinhua / GNA) – The Algerian parliament recently unanimously elected Slimane
Chenine, a legislator with an Islamist vocation, new president of the popular party
National Assembly, lower house of parliament.

Chenin was
elected Wednesday to replace Mouad Bouchareb, who resigned a week ago.

L & # 39; election
broadcast live on the public channel ENTV, in the middle of the boycott of several
opposition parties, including the Socialist Forces Front, the Rally for Culture
and Democracy and Islamist Movement for the Society of Peace. Legislators of
former ruling parties of the National Liberation Front and the National Party
Democratic rally approved Chenin, who belongs to the Islamist opposition party
of the national construction movement (BINA).

Bouchareb
resigned a week ago as a result of intense pressure from the opposition parties for it to
was illegally appointed to the presidency of Parliament six months ago.

No candidate
from the opposition had been elected the head of parliament before Chenin.
Chenine is a senior BINA party official, who has separated from the prominent Islamist
Movement for the Society of Peace (HAMS).

He is also at the head
of the El-Raed Study Center and owner of the daily El-Raed.

GNA