Algeria’s largest Islamist party said that it will vote against in the referendum on constitutional changes that is set to be held in November.
The Movement of Society for Peace announced its position on the constitution in a statement issued following a Shura Council meeting, the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper reported.
According to the statement, the party will take part in the referendum and will vote against the constitutional changes.
The statement did not provide the reasons behind the decision, but senior leaders of the Islamist party previously criticised the process of drafting the amendments, saying that it was dominated by the government.
Last year Algeria witnessed mass protests, which came to be known as the Hirak movement and which ousted long-serving President Abdelaziz Bouteflika but fell short of achieving deeper changes.
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