Algiers, Algeria – AFP Algeria’s Abdelmadjid Tebboune has been re-elected as president, the country’s electoral authority ANIE said Sunday. More than 5.3 million people voted for Tebboune, accounting for “94.65 percent of the vote,” ANIE head Mohamed Charfi told reporters. Tebboune, 78, had been heavily favoured t...
Algiers, Algeria – AFP Less than half of Algeria’s eligible voters cast a ballot in the country’s presidential poll, preliminary figures from electoral authorities showed early Sunday, despite incumbent Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s hopes for a high turnout. Tebboune, 78, is heavily favoured to secure a second term, seeing off...
Algiers, Algeria — AFP Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, accused of leading a crackdown on dissent since mass protests in 2019, is to face two challengers in a September 7 election, organisers have said. Abdelaali Hassani of the moderate party the Movement of Society for Peace and Youssef Aouchiche of the centre-left Socialist For...
