Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the president of Algeria, defied protesters by registering to run for a fifth term in office.

阿尔及利亚总统阿卜杜拉齐兹·布特弗利卡（AbdelazizBouteflika）不顾抗议者的反对，宣布竞选第五个总统任期。

Abdelkader Bensalah, the Speaker of the Senate (and a Bouteflika loyalist), is next in line as president, according to the constitution.

依据宪法，参议院议长Abdelkader Bensalah(也是布特弗利卡的忠实拥护者)将担任下一任总统。

Mr Bouteflika insists on staging a national conference and approving a new constitution before holding an election, in which he would not run.

布特弗利卡坚持在举行选举之前召开全国会议并批准一部新宪法，而他不会参加这次选举。

Abdelaziz Bouteflika was elected president in 1999 on a peacebuilding platform, and used an amnesty law to close the 10-year chapter of civil violence.

阿卜杜拉齐兹-布特弗利卡（Abdelaziz Bouteflika）在1999年以和平建设为纲领当选总统，并利用大赦法结束了长达10年的国内暴力事件。

They have sought to assuage critics by promising that if Mr Bouteflika is re-elected, he will hold an early election, which he would not contest.

他们承诺，如果布特弗利卡先生再次当选，他将提前举行大选，而布特弗利卡不会参加竞选，以此来缓和批评者的不满。

Yet by 2014, when Bouteflika ran for a fourth presidential term, the cautious optimism of the previous decade had been replaced by fatalism and despair.

然而，到2014年，当布特弗利卡竞选第四个总统任期时，前十年的谨慎乐观已经被宿命论和绝望所取代。

As luck would have it for Bouteflika, oil prices began to rise around the same time, climbing from an annual average of under $30 per barrel in 2003 to over $100 in 2008.

布特弗利卡很幸运，石油价格在同一时间开始上涨，从2003年的年平均每桶30美元以下攀升到2008年的100美元以上。