BOUTEFLIKA UNDER PERMANENT VITAL THREAT

AND THE SUBSTANCE OF ALGERIAN REVOLUTION

The Geneva patient would be "under permanent threat of life".

"Weakened, Bouteflika is" under permanent threat of life, "announces the Tribune de Genève on Wednesday, March 6. According to the Swiss daily, the Algerian president, treated at the University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG) for ten days," suffers from neurological and respiratory problems.

"The head of state is 'under permanent threat of life' because of the degradation of his neurological reflexes.

He does not suffer from any lethal harm in the short term, but it is an old man who is struggling to recover from the consequences of his 2013 stroke.

Because it is because of the HUG's expertise in neurology that Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been there since February 24th. "

The Swiss newspaper reports that the situation of the 82-year-old patient has deteriorated dangerously in recent years.

"From a state of fragility but allowing a more or less normal life, he has turned into a patient whose condition is very precarious and requires constant care. "

The conditions are met to organize the April 18 presidential, however assured Wednesday the Algerian authorities, despite the unprecedented challenge raised by the candidacy for a fifth term of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

However, according to the foreign daily, former minister Ali Benouari said that no doctor wants to issue a certificate attesting that the Algerian president is able to represent himself. Bouteflika, 82, severely disabled that he is now suffering from a stroke in 2013. He has been hospitalized in Switzerland for more than ten days for officially "periodic medical examinations" and we do not know the date of his return to Algeria.

Despite language disorders and a worrying health situation, Bouteflika is in the running for a fifth term after filing his candidacy Sunday night.

The presidential election on April 18 against and against all

Algerian authorities went from their couplet in favor of the presidential elections of April 18th.

The presidential election will be held "in accordance with the Constitution, under the conditions of transparency, serenity and tranquility," said Algerian Foreign Minister Abdelkader Messahel, on the sidelines of a ministerial council of the Arab League in Cairo.

The army and security forces are "resolutely committed to guarantee" the security of the presidential election, to allow Algerians to vote "in a climate of serenity, tranquility and stability," said Wednesday the leader said staff of the Algerian army, General Ahmed Gaïd Salah who "seems to abandon the belligerent tone he used until then to talk about the political situation in Algeria," noted the French daily El Watan, his counterpart Freedom evoking "a speech of appeasement".

And yet the camp Bouteflika seems to crack gradually in recent days before the extent of the challenge of Algerian students in the street.

The "fifth term" front is cracking

In a statement, the powerful National Mujahideen Organization (NOM, which brings together the veterans of the war of independence), traditional support of his comrade in arms Mr. Bouteflika, has provided unexpected support to the challenge. The NOM denounces in a statement institutions "not up to the aspirations of the people" and "an unnatural alliance between influential members of power" and people "who were opened the doors to take control of the public money ".

On Monday, Sid Ahmed Ferroukhi, a former minister and deputy of the National Liberation Front (FLN) announced his resignation from his mandate and his departure from the party chaired by Bouteflika.

Resignations have also been announced by various media in the Forum of entrepreneurs (FCE), employers' organization led by Ali Haddad, deemed close to the Bouteflika clan.

Even the General Union of Algerian Workers (UGTA), a union totally in the service of the fifth term by its secretary-general, Abdelmadjid Sidi-Said, is experiencing defections and calls to support popular protest.

These reversals are a sign that the abandonment of the option of Bouteflika's candidacy is beginning to be considered within the regime.

The Algerians' challenge a "peaceful revolutionary situation"

Since February 22, protesters have unveiled the image of a people full of determination. Since February 22, the largest protest movement of the last two decades in Algeria has pushed tens of thousands of people on the streets to express their opposition to a fifth term of Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

The day of mobilization promises to be strong Friday, coinciding with the celebration of the International Day of Women's Rights.

Lawyer Mokrane Ait Larbi, a respected human rights activist, said the country was living a "peaceful revolutionary situation."

"This historic phase can not achieve the break through the electoral path, whose fraud has already begun in the Constitutional Council, and before the national and international opinion," he said.