We learn that the Algerian Ministry of the Interior has filed an application with the Council of State for the provisional suspension of the Socialist Workers’ Party (PST) from its activities, including the closure of its premises. This move is part of a context marked by increasing repression of popular mobilisations, as well as the beginning of an illegitimate legislative campaign (12 June 2021) initiated under the tight control of the government, in which the PST and many other movements have refused to participate. Another electoral masquerade is in the offing: the presidential elections of December 2020. The procedure is expeditious and can be followed at any time. It shows the regime’s will to silence political and social opposition - a denial of the most fundamental democratic rights.

The repression is widespread: activists of the popular mobilisations, of the Hirak, trade unionists, activists of associative or political movements, journalists... This repression must be definitively stopped, the detainees released, the right to opposition, to dissent, respected.

23 May 2021

Pierre Rousset
Europe solidaire sans frontières (ESSF), France