The Lieutenant-General of the Algerian People's National Army (ANP), Mohamed Lamari pointed out on Tuesday that the army, "which stays outside electoral races, has no candidate and is against no candidate." In an interview published on the latest issue of El-Djeich magazine", the lieutenant general underscored: "If ANP, especially since 1992, has more or less been involved in politics, it was because it concerned the nation's fate, the State's Republican nature and the Algerian nation's permanence."
"Even though all the conditions have not been met totally, especially to guarantee the State's Republican nature, we believe that the time has come for the Algerian society to assume its options through elections run by candidates that the army neither wants to bother nor favour," Lamari went on, affirming "ANP's impartiality in this race."
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