Algeria can no longer dialogue; what is not used atrophies, and so you lose your tail

Algeria's interim President Abdelkader Bensalah during a parliamentary session at the Palais des Nations in Algiers on April 9, 2019. PHOTO | RYAD KRAMDI | AFP

The interim president of the Algerian Republic has appealed for a national dialogue to move the country out of the political impasse it has been plunged into for the past few months.

The crisis was triggered by popular demonstrations calling for the departure of then-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who had been in power for some 20 years and is in very poor health.