Editing Abdelaziz Bouteflika (section)

=== Reconciliation plan ===
[[File:Abdelaziz Bouteflika, On 14 March 2005, the Global Digital Solidarity Fund was inaugurated in Geneva.jpg|left|thumb|217x217px|Abdelaziz Bouteflika holding a speech at the inauguration of the Global Digital Solidarity Fund in [[Geneva]], 14 March 2005]]
During the first year of his second term, Bouteflika held [[2005 Algerian national reconciliation referendum]] on his "Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation", inspired by the 1995 "Sant'Egidio Platform" document. The law born of the referendum showed that one of Bouteflika's goals in promoting this blanket amnesty plan was to help Algeria recover its image internationally and to guarantee immunity to institutional actors.

The first year of Bouteflika's second term implemented the Complementary Plan for Economic Growth Support (PCSC), which aimed for the construction of 1 million housing units, the creation of 2 million jobs, the completion of the Algeria East-West Highway, the completion of the Algiers subway project, the delivery of the new Algiers airport, and other similar large scale infrastructure projects.

The PCSC totaled $60 billion of spending over the five-year period. Bouteflika also aimed to bring down the external debt from $21 billion to $12 billion in the same time. He also obtained from Parliament the reform of the law governing the oil and gas industries, despite initial opposition from the workers unions. However, Bouteflika subsequently stepped back from this position and supported amendments to the hydrocarbon law in 2006, which propose watering down some of the clauses of the 2005 legislation relating to the role of Sonatrach, the state owned oil & gas company, in new developments.