Belaid questions authority's guarantees

The head of the Algerian Front for the Future and former leader of the ruling party, Abdelaziz Belaid, revealed that the guarantees provided by the Algerian authority to ensure the integrity and transparency of the parliamentary elections scheduled for May 4, most notably the inauguration of the National Elections Monitoring Committee, which are insufficient. "Political formations have called for an independent national commission, which is not subject to the executive branch," he said.

Abdel Aziz Balaid, said in an exclusive interview with Arabs Today, that all the guarantees provided by the Algerian authority, which were expressed by Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Salal and Minister of Justice Taib Lahouh, are verbal promises that need to be realized on reality.

He pointed out that the Algerian people are required to go to the polls to protect future benefits from fraud, and to give their opinion freely so that there will be fair and transparent elections.

Belaid confirmed that the upcoming parliamentary elections represent an important station for his party, which refused to enter into any alliances to enter the next parliamentary elections, but aspires to participate in the next Algerian government.

He added that his party's aim in the current situation is to win the votes of voters and to face the phenomenon of electoral abstention. 

On judicial supervision of the process, he explained that integrity can not be achieved once the judicial authority to supervise. 

Belaid added that the judicial system has not achieved full independence and is still subject to the influence of the administration, so the reports of judges remain relative and questionable credibility.

On the electoral program set by his political formation to enter the parliamentary elections, Balaid expressed the most prominent outlines, including the investment in human resources, the economic and financial situation of the country. He pointed out that the current situation does not allow criticism of the Algerian government, but rather the search for real alternatives to the existing problems.

Belaid revealed the most prominent candidates who were selected in the electoral lists of the party, noting that the human composition of these lists included 365 candidates, including 17 doctors, pointing out that the majority of young people.