This was Abdelaziz Bouteflika's rallying call to mark this year's 64th anniversary but what all but the most blinkered Algerians saw at the formal wreath-laying at El Alia Cemetery was a wheelchair-bound and apparently extremely infirm octogenarian...
'I do not see anybody apart from the current leader of another party of the majority… who could fill Abdelaziz Bouteflika's chair ' said Ziari an FLN politburo member arguing that the ruling party was in 'disrepair' and lacked any credible alternatives to the incumbent...