Algeria’s parliamentary elections reveal deepening political disillusionment

Experts specializing in Algerian legislative affairs believe that past experiences have repeatedly shown that elected representatives who managed to obtain seats in Parliament, whether through elections or through appointment by the President of the Republic under the presidential third mechanism, which grants him the authority to appoint one third of Parliament’s members, do not possess genuine powers that would practically enable them to implement laws on the ground, immediately intervene to resolve the fundamental problems affecting citizens, whether at the level of electoral districts in deep Algeria or in overseeing the activities of the executive government.