“Potatoes and milk are in line, and billions are like walking in an empty space!”… There is a great uproar in the Algerian street and the opposition abroad exposes the bankruptcy of the regime’s economic policy!

صحافة بلادي — In a glaring paradox that is shaking the Algerian street, the crisis of scarcity and high prices of basic foodstuffs, most notably potatoes, fortified milk and legumes, is at the forefront of the Algerian citizen’s daily lives, at a time when official data promote oil and gas revenues amounting to tens of billions of dollars.

Creating new bureaucratic institutions instead of reforming agriculture and the economy

Algerian opposition forces abroad and independent experts mocked the authorities’ resort to creating new offices and administrative institutions to store potatoes, considering this an official acknowledgment of the failure of agricultural and economic policies followed for decades.

Billions are wasted buying diplomatic illusion, and the citizen pays the price

Algerian activists stressed that the continued bleeding of the public treasury to finance the separatist Polisario Front and the purchase of failed positions abroad deprive the Algerian people of their natural right to development and a decent life.