Protestors have been adamant that the '3Bs' – Bensalah recently resigned head of the Constitutional Council Tayeb Belaïz and Prime Minister Noureddine Bedoui – should all go along with Gaïd Salah himself...
By announcing his exit the Constitutional Council headed by another Bouteflika loyalist Tayeb Belaïz will be called on to launch a transition towards new elections in which Council of the Nation (upper house) Speaker Abdelkader Bensalah should step up as acting president until elections are held within three months (AC Vol 59 No 14 Dead in the water)...
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Other names put in the frame were Justice Minister Tayeb Louh and former interior minister and Presidential Counsellor Tayeb Belaïz...
Several ministers who have proved staunch Bouteflika-loyalists – such as Amar Ghoul Amara Benyounes and El Tayeb Belaïz – will also seek to have input...
They include Constitutional Council President Mourad Medelci; the army Chief of Staff and Deputy Defence Minister Ahmed Gaïd Salah; the Minister of State for the Interior and Local Authorities El Tayeb Belaïz; Justice Minister El Tayeb Louh and the Front de libération nationale Secretary General Amar Saïdani...
One Bouteflika ally Daho Ould-Kablia was replaced at the Ministry of Interior and Local Authorities by Tayeb Belaïz who was born in Maghnia in the President's home region and is described as ‘a loyalist among loyalists'...
In the spotlight stands the unlikely figure of Constitutional Council President Tayeb Belaïz who resigned as Justice Minister in May 2010 for health reasons...
