Algerian former premier Ali Benflis Sunday said he would stand in the country's presidential elections, after a 10-year absence from politics after he lost the 2004 poll to President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
"With honor, determination, confidence and a lot of humility, I took the decision to be a candidate for the presidency of the republic," Benflis, 71, told the press and his supporters.
Bouteflika on Friday set the date for the vote as April 14, but has still not said whether he himself will be seeking a fourth term after more than 14 years in power.
"I am motivated by national duty and it is in this spirit that I hope to propose and lead a project for Algeria with all Algerian men and women," he said.
Benflis was the second prime minister during Bouteflika's first mandate as president, and then ran against him in 2004.
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