The article aims to study the crisis of political change from three Phases . The first focuses on the crises of political legitimacy and democratic postponement, as fundamental issues in analyzing the phenomenon of power struggle through the dialectic between the concept of historical legitimacy and institutional fragility from the beginning of statehood in 1962 to the stage of multi-partyism and the cessation of the electoral process in the 1990s. While the second focuses on the question of the monopoly of power in the post-terrorism and national reconciliation according to considerations Political, social and security measures to prolong the life of the regime and avoid the demands of political change brought about by the revolutions of the Arab Spring through the mechanisms of buying social peace and the justification of the various austerity policies. The third stage focuses on the justification of rejection of political change in order to stay in power, considering that the dimensions of conflict and representation and the reasons for rejecting change before the end of Bouteflika's rule were not confined to the problems of ambition and political struggle for the succession of the president, but went beyond other factors to ensure the protection of interests by supporting the extension of his term to a fifth term.
