No matter who forms the next government, the military will remain in control and popular protests will continue.
![Men sit near parliamentary election campaign posters ahead of the legislative elections, in Algiers, Algeria, June 6, 2021 [File: Ramzi Boudina/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/RTXD64YZ-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Yasmina Abouzzohour is a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center and the European Council on Foreign Relations, and a senior fellow at the Morocc...an Institute for Policy Analysis. She specialises in authoritarianism and transition, focusing on regimes’ economic and political strategies and their interactions with opposition movements. She holds a PhD from the University of Oxford and a BA from Columbia University. She is currently completing a book on post-Arab Spring monarchical survival. Follow her on Twitter @YAbouzzohour.
No matter who forms the next government, the military will remain in control and popular protests will continue.
![Men sit near parliamentary election campaign posters ahead of the legislative elections, in Algiers, Algeria, June 6, 2021 [File: Ramzi Boudina/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/RTXD64YZ-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)