By: Anwar N. Haddam,
Researcher, alTaraqi Center
Abstract:
The extent of the boycott witnessed by the last May 4 Algerian legislative elections is a clear expression of the estrangement between citizens in their diversity and political elites, Government and Opposition alike, and its inability to mobilize citizens in the public interest. This second paper of the series “Reforms for Progress” presents a set of internal intellectual, behavioral and structural reforms that we believe will enable all of us, authority and opposition, both military and civilian, to ascend from the ideological trenches that we find ourselves in today, and to join the “public space” – which we have no choice but to share it, for we do not have a substitute for Algeria – to recognize citizenship equality of all the sons and daughters of the homeland in their diversity, to reject the exclusionary mentality and to adopt a culture of diversity and respect for the right to be different. It is a national project that requires the participation of all, civilians and military, government and opposition, so that together we can rebuild trust between us, restore politics and its pivotal role in serving the citizen, and formulate the political ideology of the political system to achieve harmony between the State and Citizens in their diversity, which will liberate their potentials and orient it toward a unified direction to bring about the desired economic transition and to address together the Algerian reality.
