Introduction:

On 7 February 2011, the lawyer, honorary president of the Algerian League
for the Defense of Human Rights, Ali Yahia Abdelnour, published a
opened in the independent Algerian newspaper El Watan letter. He exhorted
the government, particularly President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, a
deep questioning, advocating the end of the political system as it was
worked before. About the Ali Yahia Abdelnour were part
the context of the political events of the time, it is internal - the aftermath of
Riots in Algiers - or regional - the flight of former President Zine el-Abidine Ben
Ali in Tunisia took place on January 14, the resignation of Hosni
Mubarak imminent, occurred on February 11. In the body of his vehement
critical of the Algerian political situation, one could read this:
"The twilight that extends the power must give way to democracy,
freedom, justice, social justice and human rights. All key positions
government are held by men from the same region or
one wilaya 1, Tlemcen, some tribes. This is more of regionalism
but two of tribalism. "