Algeria's interim rulers under pressure for more change as Bouteflika goes

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika hands over resignation letter to constitutional council head Tayeb Belaiz as upper house chairman Abdelkader Bensalah (L) looks on, in Algeria, April 2, 2019, in this still image from Algerian State TV video. Algerian State TV/Handout via REUTERS

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria's caretaker government faces the prospect of persistent popular demands for the removal of a scletoric ruling elite and wholesale reforms after ailing 82-year-old President Abdelaziz Bouteflika quit in the face of mass protests.

"We want a president who understands what we want," 25-year old Bouzid Abdoun, an engineer at state-owned energy concern Sonelgaz, told Reuters on Wednesday. "We want to live here, not to migrate to Europe."