{"id":33882,"date":"2019-03-03T02:23:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T02:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33882"},"modified":"2019-03-03T02:23:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T02:23:02","slug":"why-wont-bouteflika-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33882","title":{"rendered":"Why won&#8217;t Bouteflika step down?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"76\">\n<p>Unfit for the job. That&#8217;s how hundreds of thousands of Algerians describe President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And in large-scale protests &#8211; rarely seen in Algeria &#8211; they&#8217;ve poured onto the streets demanding he pull out of next month&#8217;s elections.<\/p>\n<p>Many say Bouteflika, who turned 82 on Saturday, is unable to perform his duties as president.<\/p>\n<p>So will he step down or is Algeria heading towards political instability?<\/p>\n<p>And what is at risk for the region if the tension escalates?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Richelle Carey<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hamdi Baala &#8211; journalist<\/p>\n<p>Noufal Abboud &#8211; executive director of the Nordic Center for Conflict Transformation<\/p>\n<p>Amel Boubekeur &#8211; sociologist and researcher at the Paris-based School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfit for the job. That&#8217;s how hundreds of thousands of Algerians describe President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.\u00a0 And in large-scale protests &#8211; rarely seen in Algeria &#8211; they&#8217;ve poured onto the streets demanding he pull out of next month&#8217;s elections. Many say Bouteflika, who turned 82 on Saturday, is unable to perform his duties as president. So&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}