{"id":37827,"date":"2019-03-28T16:23:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T16:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37827"},"modified":"2019-03-28T16:23:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T16:23:44","slug":"algeria-constitutional-council-has-not-met-on-bouteflika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37827","title":{"rendered":"Algeria constitutional council has not met on Bouteflika"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1473956\/middle-east\" readability=\"62\">\n<p>\nALGIERS: Algeria\u2019s constitutional council has not held any meeting so far to decide whether President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is fit for office, state radio said on Thursday, after the army called for his removal and allies deserted the veteran leader.<\/p>\n<p>\nHundreds of protesters again took to the streets of central Algiers to demand Bouteflika\u2019s resignation and also to criticize the country\u2019s entire political system.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThieves, you have destroyed the country,\u201d they chanted.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe army\u2019s powerful chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Gaed Salah, has called on the constitutional council to rule whether the ailing 82-year-old president is fit for office.<\/p>\n<p>\nSuch a ruling would have to be ratified by a two-thirds majority in the two houses of parliament.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe protesters have been staging peaceful demonstrations against Bouteflika\u2019s 20-year rule for five weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\nUnder Article 102 of the constitution, the chairman of parliament\u2019s upper house, Abdelkader Bensalah, would serve as caretaker president for at least 45 days after Bouteflika\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n<p>\nEven if Bouteflika quits, there is no clear long-term successor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALGIERS: Algeria\u2019s constitutional council has not held any meeting so far to decide whether President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is fit for office, state radio said on Thursday, after the army called for his removal and allies deserted the veteran leader. Hundreds of protesters again took to the streets of central Algiers to demand Bouteflika\u2019s resignation and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37827","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\/37827","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=37827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}