Build a new vision of the future of each region, in a federal project, in order to ensure sufficient political, financial, administrative, constitutional and legislative autonomy, that is to say a large field of action administration and management the regions.
By Rabah Arkam
The principle of all sovereignty essentially resides in “the Nation”. The most obvious reason is that the survival and development of a decentralized culture requires control of an independant state. This is due to the fact that the states in which the stateless nations are included are “homogenized” and have sought to remove the peculiarities of national minorities.
Building a new vision on the future of Algeria, in a federal state which allows all the children of Algeria to live in this free state where everyone respects each other, would lead to a prosperous and strong Algeria while respecting freedom of conscience, freedom of the individual, freedom of belief. It gives an essential role to the school in this search for concrete freedom and voluntarily places freedom of conscience above all others and in particular religious freedom so that everyone has the right to have the religion of their choice or to believe nothing. It is up to the intellectual elite to accelerate the renewal of ideas, which involves society in the spirit of expression, of preparation for its own evolution and of helping it to concentrate on the essential.
This very practical situation for the Algerian system explains why since independence, the Algerian state did not invest in nation building, but in maintaining the racial, tribal and ethnic status quo.
“A modern Algeria can only exist as such under a federal law and a Federal Constitution. This must allow the organization and the definition of the role and the powers of territorial entities and institutions”.
This new model makes it possible to aggregate diversities into a single constitutional whole. This concern may be national, for example the province of Quebec in Canada, in Catalonia in Spain, or linguistic, religious and cultural as the Swiss cantons, or simply the product of historical traditions, of a specific policy like the United States and which enjoy political autonomy to preserve and develop these singularities.
The new Algeria will have to federate to release all its internal forces and allow everyone give its measure. Federate all its internal components to constitute at all costs a strong federal government. To federate is to ensure that each identified movement enters with its own specific name in a Grand Council with representatives democratically elected by their bases.
The new Algeria must consecrate the autonomy of the regions by granting them financial autonomy, administrative autonomy, that is to say a large field of action for administration and management. Each federated region must have its own management developed by its constitutive power (Constituent Assembly). By this constitution, the federated state organizes and strengthens its institutions and legislates in the fields which are devolved to it (implicitly or explicitly) by the Federal Constitution.
Rabah Arkam, born in Kabylie (Algeria), engineer by profession, activist for the Amazigh (Berber) cause and identity in Algeria and North Africa, is a human rights activist, fights for democracy and secularism in Algeria in a federal state, he is the author of several articles.
