ALGIERS ( Halbeeg News) – Algeria’s parliament will elect a new interim president on Tuesday, state news agency APS said on Saturday after veteran ruler Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigned following mass protests.
Under the constitution, both chambers of the assembly need to formally confirm the vacancy of the presidency and elect an upper house president to run the country on an interim basis for three months until elections.
The current upper house chairman Abdelkader Bensalah stands to become interim president.
The likes of Prime Minister Nouredine Bedoui and Tayeb Belaiz, head of a Constitutional Council who had formally received Bouteflika’s resignation, are facing pressure from protesters to quit as they are seen as close to the establishment.
President Abdulaziz Bouteflika who is suffering from stroke ended his 20 years rule last week after a final nudge by the military, following six weeks of protests calling for democratic reforms after almost 60 years of monolithic control by veterans of the 1954-62 independence war against France.
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