The Algerian government announced a few days ago that it would ban the importation of more than 1,000 products, including mobile phones, beverages, vegetables, fruits and even chocolates. This will lead to the scarcity of many products and commodities, as well as the beginning of the emergence of rising prices’ effects, approved by the government by the new budget law. This latter will come into force on January 1, which will include firstly, the increase in fuel prices for the third year in a row, which will have clear effects on the prices of many of materials that include the cost of transport in their price, as well as the prices of transport tickets.
In contrast, the last meeting, which included the government, representatives of the union (government) and employers (allied with the government) did not result in any measure to alleviate the high prices and depreciation of the purchasing power of the citizen. On the contrary, it has been agreed to privatize more public sector institutions, which will have negative repercussions on the Algerian economy and the social situation of the country that will increase the worry of Algerians.
In recent years there has been an increase in calls for strikes in a number of sectors, such as lawyers, workers in the higher education sector, paramedics and others, in the absence of serious and responsible social dialogue with the unions represented.
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