{"id":34743,"date":"2019-03-08T18:22:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T18:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34743"},"modified":"2019-03-08T18:22:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T18:22:56","slug":"algerias-protests-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34743","title":{"rendered":"Algeria&#8217;s protests explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"73.5534934498\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Tens of thousands of Algerians have taken to the streets of the capital, Algiers, as part of the biggest rallies yet against ailing President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/03\/abdelaziz-bouteflika-profile-algeria-ailing-leader-190304193802355.html\">Abdelaziz Bouteflika&#8217;s<\/a> bid for a fifth term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The latest protest on Friday came after weeks of anti-<span>Bouteflika<\/span> demonstrations &#8211; the largest displays of discontent in the North African country since the 2011 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/subjects\/arab-spring.html\">Arab Spring<\/a> &#8211; sparked by the 82-year-old leader&#8217;s announcement that he would stand for re-election on April 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><span><span>Bouteflika has been all but absent from the public eye since suffering a debilitating\u00a0<span>stroke in 2013, prompting critics to question whether he is being used as a puppet by <\/span><\/span><\/span>a shadowy cabal of civilian and military figures close to the wheelchair-bound president.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/subjects\/protests.html\">protests<\/a> against the <span>war veteran\u00a0<\/span>have made clear that, to many Algerians, his candidacy is an insult.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video above to find out how Algeria got to this point.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of thousands of Algerians have taken to the streets of the capital, Algiers, as part of the biggest rallies yet against ailing President\u00a0Abdelaziz Bouteflika&#8217;s bid for a fifth term. The latest protest on Friday came after weeks of anti-Bouteflika demonstrations &#8211; the largest displays of discontent in the North African country since the 2011&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34743","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=34743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}