{"id":38356,"date":"2019-04-01T18:23:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T18:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38356"},"modified":"2019-04-01T18:23:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T18:23:18","slug":"algerias-bouteflika-will-resign-by-april-28-state-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38356","title":{"rendered":"Algeria&#8217;s Bouteflika will resign by April 28: State media"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"87.6135508156\">\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/Algeria.html\">Algeria<\/a>&#8216;s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika will resign before his fourth term expires on April 28, his office has said in a statement carried by the official APS news agency.<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>The president will take &#8220;steps to ensure state institutions continue to function during the transition period&#8221;, said the statement issued on Monday, adding, his &#8220;resignation would occur before April 28, 2019&#8221;.<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>Millions of Algerians have been holding weekly protests nationwide calling for the 82-year-old to step down after almost 20 years in office. He has rarely been seen in public since he suffered a stroke in 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">He had originally declared his candidacy for a fifth term, but on March 11 withdrew and postponed the election &#8211; originally slated for April 18 &#8211; in response to the massive protests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The Constitutional Council has been meeting to consider whether he can be removed from office because he is unfit to assume his duties.<\/p>\n<p>Under article 102 of the constitution, the council can determine that a sitting president is no longer fit to assume his duties and, pending parliamentary approval, proceed to declare the presidency vacant.<\/p>\n<p>The Algerian constitution calls for the head of the upper house of parliament to act act as interim leader for a maximum of 90 days while an election is organised.<\/p>\n<p>Algerian national television announced on Sunday night that Bouteflika and Prime Minister Noureddine Bedoui had named a new government after weeks of mass protests and political tensions in this gas-rich North African country.<\/p>\n<p>The new government must stay in place during the transition period.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria&#8217;s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika will resign before his fourth term expires on April 28, his office has said in a statement carried by the official APS news agency.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0The president will take &#8220;steps to ensure state institutions continue to function during the transition period&#8221;, said the statement issued on Monday, adding, his &#8220;resignation would occur&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38356","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\/38356","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=38356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}