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Louisa Hanoune Quotes

born 1954 Algeria

Louisa Hanoune (Arabic: لويزة حنون; born 7 April 1954) is the head of Algeria's Workers' Party (Parti des Travailleurs, PT). In 2004, she became the first woman to run for President of Algeria.

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Random Louisa Hanoune quote

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We believe that the freedom to run for the office is for everybody, without restrictions.

We have decided to change the social nature of this movement to be political, and we call for the regime to step down.

We are against limiting the presidential terms, because this will not help establish democracy, and will not provide the people with a guarantee that they will be able to exercise their sovereignty.

We take stances on principle, and fight for everyone’s right to stand [for election], because that is the way to guarantee the people’s sovereignty in electing whomever they want.

The overlapping authorities and the parliament’s inability to fight corruption were all reasons that contributed to the spread of the phenomenon.

We believe this is not an important issue to discuss now. More important issues to discuss are political developments and the struggle to defend our national sovereignty, because Algeria is targeted more than ever.

Anyone who knows politics knows that all countries which suffered from foreign debt and were put under structural reform programs were forced to appoint ministers accepted by the international bodies.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Louisa Hanoune (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.