Algeria: Bouteflika flexes muscles before 2014 vote

<div><span class="focusParagraph"> </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em;">Five months after a stroke put him in a Paris clinic under a cloud of succession rumours, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is again exercising the political muscle that has kept him in power for more than a decade.</span></div><div></div><div><span style="line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em;">Since his return from France in July, Bouteflika has moved to outflank rivals in behind-the-scenes negotiations within the ruling FLN party-military alliance that wields real authority.</span></div><div> </div><div><div>[toc hidden:1]</div>
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