Islamic and secular together for the first time

Amidst the waves of protests against the Algerian local elections which were held recently, the Algerian streets witnessed for the first time in Algerian political history a march of the Islamic stream (Hamas and the Renaissance) side by side with the secular stream supported by he National Liberation Front. Supporters of the march considered it a challenge to the government and an attempt to stir up the Algerian streets in order to restore what was lost.

The march started from Balkor street in Algiers with 50 thousand marchers bearing the banners of different opposition parties which have contradicting ideologies. The supporters were waving the pictures of the their parties' presidents. They also repeated slogans denouncing forging the election.

This march received much notice as two parties of the government coalition participated in it; the National Liberation Front and the Peaceful Society Front and after officials from the parliamentary groups of the National Liberation Front, the Peaceful Society Movement, the Renaissance Movement, the Socialist Powers Front, the Society for Culture and Democracy, the Labor party agreed upon forming a committee to investigate the forgery of the election and to question the government for attacking the representatives of the Algerian people during the election.