ALGIERS: Around 200 deputies kept Algeria’s parliament locked up for several hours Tuesday(Wednesday in Manila) in a protest action to press demands for the house speaker to step down.

“We’re here to demand the speaker resigns,” Abdelhamid Si Affif, the head of parliament’s foreign affairs committee, told AFP after the protesters blocked the entrance with a chain and padlock.

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