<span style="color: #222222;">Algeria's Constitutional Council has extended interim President Abdelkader Bensalah's powers yesterday. The presidential elections scheduled next month have been cancelled by the Constitutional Council. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Council said that a presidential election would not be held because it had rejected the only two candidates' documents who had applied to run for the elections.</span><br />'' <br />'' <br />''<span style="color: #222222;">aAn acute political crisis broke out in Algeria in February after then-ailing president Bouteflika announced his bid to seek a fifth term in the office, triggering a wave of anti-government protests. Protests, nevertheless, are still underway, with demonstrators demanding that all politicians who received offices under Bouteflika should first resign.</span><br />