This article is the English version of Akram Belkaïd,
« Algérie : une restauration musclée ? », published in Politique étrangère, Vol. 87, Issue 2, 2022.
On December 12, 2019, Abdelmadjid Tebboune was elected president of the Algerian Republic after winning 58.13 percent of votes (4.9 million votes) in the first round. A former wali (similar to a prefect in France), a minister on more than one occasion, and even head of government for several months in 2017, Tebboune succeeded Abdelaziz Bouteflika. No longer supported by the army, by April 2019 Bouteflika had given up his attempt to win a fifth term due to the huge popular protests that had broken out at the beginning of the year. Although the election was spurned by a record number of voters (14.7 million voters—60.12 percent—failed to vote), it brought an end to the Algerian people’s irruption in the political arena and their persistent refusal to return to “normality.”
« De l’Algérie, on souligne souvent la paralysie : celle de son président, affaibli par un accident vasculaire cérébral depuis 2013 ; celle de son système politique, où les clans au pouvoir refusent toute transition. Plus rarement ce qui bouge pour ce pays. Dans son dernier numéro, Politique étrangère consacre un dossier éclairant sur l’Algérie, analysant comment ce système, « miné de toutes parts », se voit contesté par son environnement international.
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