Bouteflika steps down

(Wikipedia)

Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has submitted his resignation, state news agency APS said on Tuesday, following weeks of mass protests against his rule.The ailing, 82-year-old leader stood down shortly after the army chief of staff demanded immediate action to remove him from office.
 ''There is no more room to waste time,” state news agency APS quoted Lieutenant General Ahmed Gaed Salah as saying.
On Monday, Bouteflika, who was in power for 20 years, had said he would quit before the end of his term on April 28.
It remaisn to be seen what the opposition now is going to do. Opposition parties rejected his abdication as insufficient,. They asked for democratiziation and a change of the system. It was one of the demands during the many demonstrations of the past weeeks against Bouteflika's reelection.
Bouteflika was bound to a wheelchair and underwent many medical treatements outside Algeria. He has rarely been seen in the open since he was affected by a stroke in 2013.