Algeria's New President to Amend Constitution, Dialogue with Opposition

Abdelmadjid Tebboune,  the newly- elected to the presidency of Algeria, said during a news conference held after announcing results of the presidential election, that he is ready to start a dialogue with the popular movement to establish a new republic in Algeria and amend the constitution.

He added that he is ready to dialogue with popular movement or their representatives of it to remove the ambiguity of the political spectrum.

He stressed that he’s not an alternative of the former president Abdel Aziz Bouteflika or extending of his era.

He vowed to amend the constitution within the first months of his term to make the Algerian people convince seriousness in his promises during the electoral campaign.

The new president assured that the constitutional amendments will be presented to the people to vote them instead of passing them at the national assembly as his predecessor did.

Tebboune also affirmed that he will paraphrase a new election law to separate politics from funds forever and restore integration of the Algerian state and its credibility at the people.

The new president, 74 years, won the presidential election run on Thursday.

He succeeds in Bouteflika who was enforced to step down due to pressure of the protests swept across the country.

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He won 58.15 % of the valid votes.

On the other hand, thousands of Algerians gathered in the center of the Algiers, the capital city, to announce refusing of the newly elected president.

Most of the Algerians boycotted the presidential election.

Fresh protests erupted in Algeria on Friday just hours after Tebboune was declared the winner of the country's presidential election.

"The country is ours and we do what we want", they chanted, while holding up a banner that read: "We will not stop!"

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He called on Friday for a dialogue with the opposition protest movement, saying at a news conference he would start consultations on a new constitution to be approved by referendum and extended his hand to them "to open a new page".

But the protesters marching in Algiers see him as part of the same military-backed elite that has ruled Algeria for decades and quickly rejected his victory.