With 66.8% of the vote, “yes” therefore won the referendum in Algeria on the constitutional revision proposed by the government. But the vote was marked by a strong hold.
With more than 75% neither for nor against, this historical record is in the form of a deprivation of President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, still hospitalized abroad. The opposition, which was incarnated since February 2019 by the so-called “Hirak” movement, had in fact called for a boycott of the vote on Sunday.
For the Algerian sociologist Fatma Ousseddik, this omission is another message addressed to the country’s leaders: “Hirak is not dead, that is the proof. I believe that the rates we have been able to comply with are the indicator of the maintenance of these demands, that is, its demands for profound change, and that it makes no sense to run desperately like that towards the past. . , as leaders are trying to do, while there is a demand for the future that society makes, a demand for change and a real opportunity to finally hear this people crying and not wanting to see her children continue to die in the sea. “
And Fatma Ousseddik returns to the chosen date for this election. “As for the choice of date for this referendum, the Algerian people were extremely shocked that this referendum was set for November 1, which is a founding date for the nation. I think she did not want this to be an event, ”said the sociologist.
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