The political system is closed to Algeria’s citizens, who cannot choose their leadership. Plummeting government revenues and soaring food prices could prompt wide-scale unrest.
The Algerian population is a young one, with 70% under the age of 35. These youths will end up, sooner or later, rejecting the notion that their future is mortgaged – and bitter memories of the violence of the 1990s will not be enough to hold them at bay.
