Algeria's leaders of political parties and activists boycotted parliamentary elections, scheduled for May 4, began to launch campaigns calling Algerian citizens to boycott elections and not to go to the polls.

Boycotters of parliamentary elections, most notably the leader of the new generation party, Sufian Gilali, the head of the Democratic Union Party under establishment, Karim Tabou, member of the Barakat movement, and others, carried out several campaigns in a number of western provinces of  Oran and Mostaganem, to announce their rejection of the elections, which is supervised by the Algerian authority.

Their campaign is a clear challenge to the Algerian authority. Meanwhile, Algerian Minister of Communication Abdelhamid Qurein called on the media to close the door to all voices calling for a boycott of the upcoming legislative elections.

"The press should not be loudspeakers to the appeals of the boycott," the Algerian minister said during a press conference on Friday. "The press should not be characterized by a sense of responsibility and commitment to professionalism and ethics," he added.

Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sallal called on Algerians to go to the polls on May 4 to express their voices and show their love for Algeria, even if voting on a white paper. Sallal criticized the advocates of boycott, saying in press statements, on the sidelines of a field visit to the province of Djelfa, they are trying to impose their choice on the Algerians.

Sallal said that the upcoming election is considered an important step in building the institutions of the country after the amendments made by the constitution and a station in which the people choose his representatives to realize his collective will. In the last parliamentary elections held in 2012, the Algerian government could not achieve more than 43 percent of the electorate.

The leaders of the ruling party in Algeria are continuing the march initiated by the former Secretary-General of the National Liberation Front Party, Ammar Saadani, who has been the first to bring this issue to the political arena. He led a coup against Algeria's intelligence service in 2014 and launched a major propaganda campaign to lay the foundations of a "civil state" in which political institutions impose their presence. The Secretary-General of the Algerian President's Party, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, and a number of leaders responsible for activating the electoral campaign, said that laying the foundations of the civil state project is one of the main axes of the party's program, which is based mainly on the political program of Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

In their election campaign, opposition parties are pushing for lifting the ban on marches and demonstrations in Algiers without disrupting public order. The Algerian Islamic currents chose to walk in the streets of Algiers on the first day of the electoral campaign, tried to send a direct message to the Authority that political formations were able to organize peaceful marches on the street without disrupting public order.