with our special correspondent in Algiers, Magali Lagrange

On the electoral lists that will be presented to Algerian voters on Saturday, June 12, certain opposition parties will not appear. This is the case of the Front of Socialist Forces, the Workers' Party, and the Rally for Culture and Democracy, which all had elected deputies in the last assembly.

"Since the beginning of the Hirak in 2019, Algerians have decided that before going to elections, there will need to be a debate involving all political actors, with no exclusions whatsoever," Mohcine Belabbas, president of the RCD (Rally for Culture and Democracy), explains to us, justifying his choice not to take part in the vote. It is about "reaching agreement on the mechanisms to be put in place in order to guarantee the construction of a democratic state." Demands which, Mohcine Belabbas claims, have not been met to this day.

The opposition party UCP is also not participating in these early legislative elections. For its president, lawyer Zoubida Assoul, the conditions are not in place. "To organize elections, Algerians will need to be free in their country. We made proposals, as a party, for a way out of the crisis, based essentially on dialogue with the entire political class and with the authorities too. Unfortunately we were not followed..."

Among the lists of candidates from which Algerian voters will have to choose on Saturday, more than half present themselves as "independent."

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