Algeria’s parliament on Tuesday will elect a new interim president, state news agency APS said on Saturday, after veteran ruler Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigned following mass protests.
Under the constitution, both chambers of the assembly need to formally confirm the vacancy of the presidency and elect an upper house president to run the country on an interim basis for three months until elections, ONA reports quoting Reuters.
The current upper house chairman Abdelkader Bensalah stands to become interim president as of now.
But he, like Prime Minister Nouredine Bedoui and Tayeb Belaiz, head of a Constitutional Council who had formally received Bouteflika’s resignation, are facing pressure from protesters to quit as they are seen as close to the establishment.
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