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Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has been re-elected for a second term with nearly 95% of the vote, the head of the electoral authority, Anie, announced on Sunday. Out of a total of 5.630 million “votes recorded, 5.320 million voted for the independent candidate” Tebboune, “or 94.65% of the vote,” Mohamed Charfi said.
“The election was marked by broad transparency”
The president of the Anie did not provide new figures on the turnout, after having announced during the night “an average rate of 48% at the close of polling stations” on Saturday at 8:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. GMT). “The election was marked by broad transparency” and “reflected the electoral maturity of the people”, the president of the Anie said. A few hours earlier, however, one of Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s competitors, the moderate Islamist candidate Abdelaali Hassani, had denounced “violations” during the vote. According to his campaign team, there was “pressure on certain polling station officials to inflate the results”, particularly the turnout.
The same team called the “average turnout” announced by the Anie, which averaged the results from different regions, a “strange term.” The turnout usually corresponds to the number of voters divided by the number of registered voters (24.5 million in total). Turnout was a major issue in the election, while Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s victory was not in doubt among experts. Apart from the Islamist candidate, the other contender was Youcef Aouchiche, president of the Front des forces socialistes, the oldest opposition party, based in Kabylie (east).
For his first term, Abdelmadjid Tebboune won the December 2019 election with 58% of the vote but a turnout of less than 40%. The vote was held in the midst of the Hirak, a pro-democracy movement demanding a change to the system in force since independence from France in 1962, and many parties had called for a boycott.
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