Credit: REUTERS/ZOHRA BENSEMRAALGIERS, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Algeria's Prime Minister Noureddine Bedoui will resign soon to facilitate the holding of elections this year that the army sees as the only way to end a standoff over months of protests, two senior sources told Reuters on Tuesday.
Bedoui's departure is a major demand of protesters who in April forced long-time president Abdelaziz Bouteflika to quit, and who have rejected fresh elections until there is a more thorough change of the power structure.
(Reporting by Lamine Chikhi, Writing by Angus McDowall, Editing by Catherine Evans)
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