Algerian police break up anti-government protest before election

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* Anti-government protests rare in Algeria * Rally broken up a day before election * Bouteflika widely expected to win ballot ALGIERS, April 16 (Reuters) - Algerian police broke up a rare anti-government protest on Wednesday, a day before elections that look set to give President Abdelaziz Bouteflika a fourth term in ****** although he is still recovering from a stroke. Small groups of demonstrators from Barakat - the name means "E**ugh" - tried to hold a sit-in in downtown Algiers before uniformed police surrounded them and dragged them off. The ruling Front de Liberation Nationale (FLN) and the army have been the main influence on the **rth African state's politics since independence from France in 1962. "We are just peacefully demonstrating, we are **t calling for a revolution or trying to make trouble." Police dispersed several small groups of protesters, some waving Algeria's green and white flag.

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