Abdelkader Bengrina, head of the National Construction Movement, hinted on Friday at the possibility of his withdrawal from the leadership of the political party he has led since April 2018.
Bengrina explained, in his speech during the opening of the National Shura Council session at the movement’s national headquarters in Cheraga, west of the capital, that his continuation in the position of movement president may not last long, hinting at his transition from a leadership position to what he described as “soldiering.”
Abdelkader Bengrina was elected president of the National Construction Movement during its extraordinary congress held in April 2018, succeeding Sheikh Mustafa Belmehdi, who led the movement since its founding in 2013, before being re-elected for a new term during the movement’s second congress in May 2023.
Bengrina’s statements are considered early, suggesting the possibility of a leadership transition for the movement—which split from the Movement of Society for Peace—outside the legal deadlines associated with the third congress scheduled for 2028. This comes in parallel with the draft organic law on political parties, which includes several important amendments compared to the current text, particularly regarding Article 42 of Section One in Chapter Three, concerning the organization of political parties, which states that “a political party has a deliberative body and an executive body that oversee its leadership at the national level, and the party official is elected for a five-year term, renewable once.”
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