Algeria: Abdelaziz Bouteflika will not present him self for a fifth term

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After twenty years in power, the Algerian president, extremely weakened by a stroke, said he was giving up a fifth term.

The sixth president of independent Algeria is retiring. Reached since 2005 for stomach cancer , Abdelaziz Bouteflika, extremely weakened by a stroke that has nailed him to a wheelchair since 2013, has announced that he will not run for a fifth consecutive term . Although it will have deeply marked the history of Algeria, its balance sheet remains no less contrasted.