Corrosion vertical power

In Algeria, protesters after the resignation of the President demand to change the entire system

On the evening of April 2, Algerian television was distributed by video: an 82-year-old president, dressed in a long shirt (gandura) of a warm sand-colored color, sits in a wheelchair under his long-standing portrait, looks at a large “postcard”, and then with difficulty, like this postcard-a kettlebell, reports it to the head of the Constitutional Council. In the postcard - the text of the renunciation of the presidential chair. Thus ended the twenty -year period of the authoritarian rule of Abdelaziz Butfliki.

Although the postcard turned out to be heavy for the innocent person for his health, but outwardly it is exactly the “congratulatory address”, like those presented on anniversaries.

We can assume that the president congratulated the 40 millionth Algerian people on his departure. “This decision <...> should help calm the hearts and minds of my compatriots in order to allow them to bring Algeria to the best future, which they legally strive for,” the postcard says.

"Hearts and minds" popular and really rejoiced somewhat. People poured thousands onto the streets of the city of Algeria and, under the incessant cacophony of car buzzing, walked until late at night, Gorlania: “Freedom!”, “This is our country!” And of course - "There is no bottleneck!" Only if earlier it sounded as an aggressive requirement, now - as a joyful affirmative exclamation.

“Buteflika, go to where you have a place: to a landfill of history,” the representative of the “children of our homeland” holds the poster, to whom the next day is either Buteflik, or someone else on behalf of his “farewell letter”.

“I apologize to you for all the mistakes made by my word or gesture to you”;

And “since everything is an end to everything, I say goodbye to you, even if it is not easy for me to express all the sincerity of my feelings” - these words are probably designed to cause tears of mercy at least in some part of Algerian society. Moreover, the president leaves “without fear for the future of the country”, for which he made so many useful things.

But after all, the same “Landfill of the History” is already stored by the actions of the Butfliki regime. The regime, which, according to the apt remark of the leader of one of the protest movements, "was able to democratize only corruption and non -ism."

So people nevertheless squeezed out the president, not succumbing to attempts to manipulate-like the one that was voiced on March 10, when they announced that the Buteflik would not be on the fifth time. But for now, there’s nothing to be done here, I will have to stay in its place indefinitely - until the reforms are “developed” to create the “foundations of the new system with which the process of transformation of the state will begin”.

Of course, the president was “squeezed out” with the hands of the generals, but these are technical details.

The generals, led by the head of the General Staff, 79-year-old Ahmed Gaid Salah, acted according to the chaotic scenario of the people-and for their own well-being first of all.

After all, in the early days of protests, Salah threatened the manifestants with repression, said that the “rebellion” was organized by “malicious forces that envy stability and the world that reign in the country.” As for the world, Salah is right after the “Black Decade”, when a civil war (1991–2002) was going on in Algeria, the time has come for stability. At the same time, the “New Power”, led by Buteflika, who was put on the throne, led by Salah, provided this stability with authoritarian methods, lulling society with injections from the oil and gas needle.

For the time being, against the backdrop of the truly dashing nineties, almost everything succeeded in this power. But fatigue from the authoritarian lifestyle was multiplied by the people and, coinciding with the fatigue of world markets from sky -high oil prices, led to corrosion of the power vertical.

People broke through.

At the end of March, the generals already reasonably feared that they would also cover them with waves of protest, which rose in mid -February. They rose after it was announced that the weak and bored with almost all Butiflik was nominated for the fifth presidential term.

So in just a month the moment came when the generals - the by the efforts of the “Bethefliki clan” (at the head of Said, the younger brother of the president), which have been pushed into the background), realized that they realized that they realized that they realized that they realized that they realized that they

The presidential army is now not as dangerous as the crowd.

The officers first took and arrested the “elephant” - the main Algerian oligarch Ali Haddad (whose name protested street was too often shouted in combination with the noun “thief”), and then passed the weak “king” Buteflika.

But the game of protesters with the authorities did not end.

On the coming Friday, April 5, more than twenty non -governmental organizations and trade unions called people to take to the streets again.

The call of the organizers states that only the complete overthrow of the “system inherited since 1962” (i.e. from the moment of independence of the country) will be a real victory. Systems, in the creation of which buteflik participated from the very beginning. Systems in which the military always, one way or another, was appropriated by the military. And now they again, judging by the development of events, will have to ensure the holding of new presidential elections within 90 days (such a term is recorded in the Constitution).

Nevertheless, the organizers of the new protest action want the displacement of “all representatives of this shameful regime” and “transition to the new, democratic republic”.

To do this, "keep pressure" on the system and go out into the streets to the "victorious end".