Speculation that the President has not given up on efforts to get his businessman brother Saïd Bouteflika elected in his place as their late mother reportedly wanted returns from time to time (AC Vol 52 No 19 No springtime in Algiers)...
His poor health may not enable him to see out his third term to 2014 and his hopes of bequeathing a central role to his younger brother Saïd Bouteflika have been sunk by the Arab Spring...
Nor is he all-powerful as was shown when plans for his businessman younger brother Saïd Bouteflika to succeed him were squashed (AC Vol 49 No 25)...