Le Pouvoir. aging but still powerful

摘要

Indecision is the default setting for Algeria's governing elite, an inscrutable grouping of military, political and business figures collectively nicknamed Le Pouvoir. The squabbling clans of The Power are anchored around the FLN, the socialist party that led Algeria to independence from France in 1962, and has run the country ever since. But old stalwarts are dead or retired, and the FLN's waning grip is personified by ailing president Abdelaziz Boutef-lika, an 81-year-old recluse into his fourth term in office who was last seen in public in 2013.