Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is resigning after weeks of mass protests, state media report.
Lawyers had told him that they will not observe the elections if he will still be running for president.
The ailing president who controls the country from a wheelchair got a
The mass protests which has gone for weeks now has finally yielded fruits after the president announced his resignation through the state media.
The army had announced that the president is incapable of running the government and had backed up the protesters.
The protesters added that they want all the leaders under Bouteflika be removed for a new regime to rule.
Algerians have started celebrating the good news.