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It's three months to the Algerian Presidential election and no one is sure who is running. The elections is expected to offer rare chance for change and new personalities in a country long dominated by aging military figures.
Ailing three-term President Abdelaziz Bouteflika hasn't made clear whether he will run again. Although, Bouteflika's own political party, the National Salvation Front, insists he will run for a fourth term, but there are creeping suspicions that he is just not up for it.
If Bouteflika were to run, he would undoubtedly win, with the support of two pro-government parties and the machinery of the state. If he doesn't, that would open up the field to a new generation of political leaders and a degree of uncertainty in a country that clings to stability after a 1990s civil war with Islamist insurgents killed 200 000 people.
Ailing three-term President Abdelaziz Bouteflika hasn't made clear whether he will run again. Although, Bouteflika's own political party, the National Salvation Front, insists he will run for a fourth term, but there are creeping suspicions that he is just not up for it.
If Bouteflika were to run, he would undoubtedly win, with the support of two pro-government parties and the machinery of the state. If he doesn't, that would open up the field to a new generation of political leaders and a degree of uncertainty in a country that clings to stability after a 1990s civil war with Islamist insurgents killed 200 000 people.
