President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Algeria's president for almost 20 years, announced his resignation on Tuesday.
In this April 28, 2014, photo, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika sits in a wheelchair after taking the oath as president, in Algiers, Algeria.
”I have the honor to formally notify you of my decision to terminate my term as president of the republic, as from today,” began a statement attributed to the 82-year-old leader by the state-run Algeria Press Service.He made the decision “to contribute to easing the hearts and minds of my compatriots and to enable them to plan together for a better future for Algeria, which they legitimately aspire to,” it said.
That announcement spurred street protests involving tens of thousands of people. Despite repeated concessions, including canceling plans for a fifth term, the demonstrations grew, calling on Bouteflika to “step down and nothing more.” In his resignation statement, Bouteflika said he had “taken the appropriate measures, as part of my constitutional prerogatives, to ensure that the state and its institutions will continue to normally function during the transition period, leading to the election of the new president of the republic.”
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