{"id":36049,"date":"2019-03-18T10:23:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T10:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=36049"},"modified":"2019-03-18T10:23:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T10:23:37","slug":"algerian-unions-refuse-to-support-pms-efforts-to-form-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=36049","title":{"rendered":"Algerian unions refuse to support PM\u2019s efforts to form government"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1468371\/middle-east\" readability=\"67\">\n<p>\nALGIERS: Thirteen independent Algerian unions have refused to back the newly-appointed prime minister\u2019s efforts to form a government he hopes will placate protesters who are pressuring President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and his inner circle to step down.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWe will not hold discussions with this system, we belong to the people and the people said \u2018No\u2019 to the system,\u201d Boualem Amora, one of the leaders of the education sector unions, told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\nPrime Minister Noureddine Bedoui has promised to create an inclusive government of technocrats in a country dominated by veterans of the 1954-1962 war of independence against France, as well as the military and business tycoons.<\/p>\n<p>\nUnion leaders said they refused to enter a dialogue when he reached out to them.<\/p>\n<p>\nMeanwhile,\u00a0Algeria\u2019s newly-appointed Deputy Prime Minister Ramtane Lamamra is expected to visit several countries including Russia, China, and some EU nations to explain the crisis in Algeria, a foreign ministry official said.<\/p>\n<p>\nAlgerians, who have been demonstrating for more than three weeks, have rejected overtures by Bouteflika, who has reversed a decision to stand for another term after 20 years in power.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe ailing president stopped short of relinquishing office and said he would stay on until a new constitution is adopted \u2014 in effect extending his fourth term in office and meaning he is likely to stay in power for some time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALGIERS: Thirteen independent Algerian unions have refused to back the newly-appointed prime minister\u2019s efforts to form a government he hopes will placate protesters who are pressuring President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and his inner circle to step down. \u201cWe will not hold discussions with this system, we belong to the people and the people said \u2018No\u2019 to&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-36049","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\/36049","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=36049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}