Ailing Bouteflika for the post of president

"Morbid Bouteflika, a candidate as the president"

"The 81-year-old president Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been in power since 1999 – and he wants to continue having for a while."

"He made it clear now that he is standing as a candidate for the presidency for a fifth period at the elections on 18 april, in spite of his poor health."

" of Course I have not the same physical force as in the past – something I've never hidden from the people. But the unbroken will to serve has never left me and it allows me to overcome the limitations related to health problems that one day all can feel of, " said Bouteflika, according to the state news agency APS."

"Earlier in February declared the country's governing coalition – in which the president's party, the FLN included – its support for Bouteflika."

"He has in recent years rarely been seen in public because of his health. Bouteflika sitting in a wheelchair after a stroke in 2013."

"Ahmed Ouyahia, the Algerian prime minister, has said that the president's state of health is not a barrier for another term in office."

"The largest islamist party, the MSP, have voiced the opposite opinion, and launches his own candidate Abderrazak Makri."

"the 64-year-old retired general Ali Ghediri candidate."

"However, the socialist party FFS no candidate, and the party calls for a"

"Algeria has some 42 million inhabitants, is Africa's largest country and the export of oil and gas account for 95 per cent of the foreign revenues and 60 percent of the state budget."

"Algeria was a French colony from 1830 but became independent in 1962 after a nearly eight-year-long, bloody liberation war."

"Demonstrations in October 1988 did the authorities declared a state of emergency. Democratic reforms have been introduced but when the islamist party FIS won the elections in 1991, stepped the military, which triggered a civil war that claimed about 200,000 lives between 1992 and 2002. The armed islamic group, the GIA was blamed for much of the violence."

"During the civil war, in 1999, won Abdelaziz Bouteflika presidential elections with military support."

"He launched a försoningsprogram who led thousands of militants to lay down their arms."

"in the presidential elections In april 2014 conquered Bouteflika a fourth term in office. The official figures were that he got 81 percent of the votes."

"the parliamentary Elections in 2017 gave Bouteflikas the party of the FLN and samarbetspartiet RND an absolute majority in parliament."