Deputies propose reduction of national service in Algeria

Representatives of the People’s national assembly (Lower House of Parliament) insisted Wednesday, during a debate on the bill relating to the national service, on the necessity to reduce its legal duration to six months, to bring the service conscripts’ monthly allowances into alignment with the guaranteed national minimum wage (SNMG) or a higher amount and to grant the youth that have accomplished this national duty the priority to employment.
Justice and Development Front (FJD) Deputy Meriem Derradji pleaded in favour of the reduction of the national service to six months instead of 12 as stipulated in the bill. She also suggests replacing the term “military service” with “national service.”
For the representative of the Socialist Forces Front (FFS), Belkacem Amarouche, it is a question to confer to the national service concept its true signification as military service, criticizing the non implication of the national community abroad in the enrichment of the law and the absence of mechanisms allowing the concerned youth by this national obligation to introduce resorts.
For her part, FLN Deputy Salima Athmani recommended to look for the reasons that lead the youth to avoid the national service.
Independent deputies Ahmed Ben Aissa and Mohamed Medyani suggested to aintain the duration of national service to 18 months.