The Algerian presidency on Monday denounced an initiative by a local university to honour President Abdelmadjid Tebboune with a picture “which reminds the Algerians of the practices of a shameful period,” according to a statement issued by the Directorate General of Communication at the Presidency of the Republic.
The statement denounced the step taken by Batna 1 University, in the east of the country, “distancing itself from this initiative which was in bad-taste.”
The Algerian Presidency considered the university’s honouring of Tebboune with a picture to be reminiscent of the days of former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (1999-2019).
Bouteflika’s decision in 2019 to run for a fifth presidential term stirred up a wave of protests that led him to withdraw from the race and spend the remainder of his life away from politics.
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