الانتخابات و شرعية المؤسسات مع الإشارة لحالة الجزائر

Abstract EN

Free and elections play an important role in legitimizing the established regime.

While the constitution states that the people is the source of all authorities, the people elects to establish institutions that maintains and supports national independence, the people chooses freely their representatives and the right to exercise its own sovereignty through referendums and elections and constitutional institutions; it is clear that the (il)legitimacy of these institutions depends on the relationship between who rules and who is being ruled.

As a result, legitimacy, in this meaning, contribute to the stability of the entire society as long as the concept of legitimacy, as inspired by Max Weber, reflects the public consent/satisfaction, not coercion.

In this context, elections are the essentially indispensable link in such a relationship