Algeria’s Tebboune: regime insider in search of legitimacy

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, a regime insider who took office after nearly a year of protests, is seeking to satisfy the demands of the street through a constitutional referendum on Sunday. A senior member of the National Liberation Front (FLN) of former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the 74-year-old is far from being the fresh face demanded by the youth-dominated Hirak protest movement. Tebboune, who is currently hospitalised…