Talk:Abdelaziz Bouteflika

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Contents 1 Party 2 Family 3 NPOV 4 NPOV cleanup 5 Blatant POV

[edit] Party

President Bouteflika is not a member of any party. --TwinsFan48

http://www.electionworld.org/algeria.htm says otherwise. What is your reference? Morwen 15:55, Dec 21, 2003 (UTC)

http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Algeria.html He used to be leader of the party, but in his official capacity as president does not belong to any party. --TwinsFan48 21 Dec 2003

That page says

       5 May 2003 -              Ahmed Ouyahia (2nd time)           (s.a.)               RND

which I don't understand how it demonstrates your point. Morwen 16:14, Dec 21, 2003 (UTC)

Ouyahia is a partisan, but Bouteflika is not. TwinsFan48

That's right president Bouteflika is not a member of any party. He used to be a leading member of the FLN party but then was voted out of the leadership in the early 80's. When he presented himself in the 1999 elections he did so as an independant candidate even though he was backed by 3 parties (FLN, RND, HMS). And when he was re-elected for his second mandate in April 2004, same thing: he presented himself as an independant candidate with support from the same parties. The three parties which support him have joined in a non-permanent alliance called the "presidential alliance" to pass his governments bills in parliament, after his landslide victory in the 2004 elections. (by Jamal, Algerian citizen)

[edit] Family

Does Abdelaziz Bouteflika have a family? Any children? Is he married?

There is some redundancy in the Family section of the article, which has a lot of political information repeated in later sections. The non-family information in the family section should be merged into other sections.

[edit] NPOV

This article needs to be fixed for several reasons, (1) it is not written in the professional manner needed for a Wikipedia entry, especially about a president of a country and (2) it is pure speculation as to why the biography omits his birthplace. How do we even know he was born in Morocco? I am not sure if i put the right tag on it, but their is definitely a problem worth noting with this article.--Thomas.macmillan 13:39, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

We know that he was born in morocco because everybody knows he was born in morocco, it's like knowing that the earth is not flat, All the books that speaks about him says he was born in morocco, every news paper in ALgeria says he was born in morocco, his friends, his family have said he was born in morocco, he have said it and have never denied it, it is not a mistery. We are not living in the neolithic where people forgot where they were born.

Every news paper in algeria has noted that his birth place is omitted, every polical observer says it is for political reasons, these are known facts, but in order to be neutral, there is a little word in the sentence : "probably". We need to speak about it because it is not normal that an official biography omits the birthplace of a president. Toira 17:57, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Please - look into the marriage claim - no Algerian accepts this. The claim is from one source - Mohamed benchicou's book Bouteflika Une Imposture Algerienne but not repeated anywhere else. Unless some more evidence comes to light - I don't think Wiki should put this down as a fact. Boutaflika himself has said he is not married - except to his country!

[edit] NPOV cleanup

This article is part of the NPOV backlog. Since the article appears uncontroversial, and there seems to be no further discussion suggesting disagreement, the tag is removed (this article is missing cites though). If you disagree with this, please re-tag the article with {{NPOV}} and post to Talk. -- Steve Hart 00:33, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Blatant POV

I'm no avid supporter of the current president, but a negative POV is strong in this article, really it's not very hard for anyone to notice that. Lots of uncited claims. --80.47.19.60 07:53, 8 March 2007 (UTC)