After months-long protests and 2019 demonstrations that toppled former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Algeria has now fixed November 1st as a date to hold a referendum on a new constitution that meets public demands of boosting democracy and giving parliament a greater role, the Algerian presidency confirmed on Monday.
Earlier this year a draft was revealed that stated the new constitution of the North African country would give the prime minister and parliament more power to govern the nation of 45 million people.
The referendum announcement comes after President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, elected last December, continuously vowed to establish political and economic reforms and to meet demands of protesters that managed to remove Algeria’s former president Bouteflika in April 2019.
The date to conduct the referendum was declared after President Tebboune held a meeting with Mohamed Chorfi, the head of the election authority, earlier on Monday, the presidency reported in a statement.