{"id":13490,"date":"2019-03-12T07:27:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T23:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=13490"},"modified":"2019-03-12T07:27:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T23:27:38","slug":"algeria-president-quits-polls-postponed-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=13490","title":{"rendered":"Algeria president quits, polls postponed &#8211; Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"615\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/algeria-protest-1024x615.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11795\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/algeria-protest-1024x615.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/algeria-protest-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/algeria-protest-768x461.jpg 768w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/algeria-protest-600x360.jpg 600w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/algeria-protest.jpg 1839w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption> <br>Algeria protests grow against fifth term for president. Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>ALGERIS, Algeria, March 12 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) &#8211; Algerian president Abdul Aziz Bouteflika will not be seeking a fifth term, the presidency confirmed late Monday. The date of elections has also been postponed according to a statement from the presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Polls were slated for April 4 but the date was threatened by serial protests that rocked the country calling for the president to step down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A government reshuffle would take place soon, the presidency added in a statement. A new Prime Minister has also been named as part of raft of changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Noureddine Bedoui was appointed premier according to Ennahar TV. He had previously served as Interior Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ramtane Lamamra, a former Bouteflika diplomatic advisor was also named as deputy Prime Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new arrangements came as a result of the resignation of Ahmed Ouyahia shortly after Bouteflika announced that he will not seek a fifth term in office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-facebook wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-facebook\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/algeriepresseservice\/videos\/576921209462591\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"et\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bedoui?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bedoui<\/a> named Prime Minister replacing Ouyahia, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Lamamra?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Lamamra<\/a> vice-Prime Minister<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AaXpz0fgV0\">https:\/\/t.co\/AaXpz0fgV0<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vyuwRk6RKQ\">pic.twitter.com\/vyuwRk6RKQ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ALG\u00c9RIE PRESSE SERVICE | \u0648\u0643\u0627\u0644\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0646\u0628\u0627\u0621 \u0627\u0644\u062c\u0632\u0627\u0626\u0631\u064a\u0629 (@APS_Algerie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/APS_Algerie\/status\/1105171016890892288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALGERIS, Algeria, March 12 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) &#8211; Algerian president Abdul Aziz Bouteflika will not be seeking a fifth term, the presidency confirmed late Monday. The date of elections has also been postponed according to a statement from the presidency. Polls were slated for April 4 but the date was threatened by serial protests that rocked the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":13491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,296],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13490"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}