Algerian Prime Minister and Secretary General of the National Democratic Rally (RND, Liberal) Ahmed Ouyahia announced Wednesday in Algiers in late February before the lifting of the state of emergency in force for 19 years.
"The lifting of emergency rule take place before the end of this month along with the announcement of several decisions regarding housing, employment and management of the administration," saidOuyahia, quoted by news agency APS, the opening of a meeting of the presidential alliance.
The state of emergency was proclaimed in 1992 at the beginning of the decade of Islamist violence that killed at least 150,000 dead.
Besides the RND, the presidential alliance, created in 2002 to support President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, includes the National Liberation Front (FLN, nationalist) and the Movement of Society for Peace (MSP, Islamist).
She holds an absolute majority in Parliament.
Ouyahia also said that it was "not ignore the events taking place in the Arab and Islamic countries."
He stressed "the need to provide adequate solutions to the problems of Algerian youth."
The announcement of Mr.Ouyahia occurs after an event which was attended by 12 February some 2,000 people in central Algiers.
The marches are banned in the Algerian capital and protesters were prevented from scrolling by deploying some 30,000 police officers.
The opposition in the National Coordination for Change and Democracy (NCCD) has called for a new event for February 19.
This coordination includes opposition parties, the Algerian League for the Defence of Human Rights and representatives of civil society.
Mr.Bouteflika announced February 3 the lifting of emergency rule "in the very near future" at a Council of Ministers.
He then instructed the government to tackle "without delay" to develop "appropriate texts that will enable the State to continue the fight against terrorism."
