{"id":34903,"date":"2019-03-11T18:21:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T18:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34903"},"modified":"2019-03-11T18:21:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T18:21:30","slug":"algerias-bouteflika-delays-elections-will-not-seek-fifth-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34903","title":{"rendered":"Algeria&#8217;s Bouteflika delays elections, will not seek fifth term"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"73.3263979194\">\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/algeria.html\">Algeria<\/a>&#8216;s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has said he will not seek a fifth term and announced the delay of the country&#8217;s presidential polls amid mass protests against his reelection bid.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">In a message carried by the official APS news agency on Monday, the 82-year-old also said the elections\u00a0would follow a national conference on political and constitutional reform to be carried out by the end of 2019.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The ailing leader, who has been confined to a wheelchair since suffering a stroke in 2013, said a government reshuffle would also take place soon.<\/p>\n<p>According to APS, Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia had already resigned.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The dramatic developments followed weeks of mass demonstrations against Bouteflika&#8217;s plan to extend his 20-year rule.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow &#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria&#8217;s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has said he will not seek a fifth term and announced the delay of the country&#8217;s presidential polls amid mass protests against his reelection bid.\u00a0 In a message carried by the official APS news agency on Monday, the 82-year-old also said the elections\u00a0would follow a national conference on political and constitutional&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-34903","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\/34903","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=34903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}