Algerian President – level 3

08-04-2019 07:00

Last Tuesday, the state-run Algerian press agency announced in a statement that the country’s ailing president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, resigned following weeks of protests.

This comes as a surprise since the president previously announced plans to run for a fifth term. However, people started protesting him as soon as they found out.

Bouteflika first came to power in 1999 when the military largely backed his victory. This led to criticism that he won the presidency fraudulently. People elected him again in 2004, 2009 and 2014, and the criticism never stopped.

The 82-year-old president has been in poor health recently – he survived a stroke in 2013.

Difficult words: announce (officially say something), ailing (in poor health), fraudulently (done illegally).

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