Abdelmadjid Teboun won re-election to the presidency of Algeria for a second term, receiving almost 95% of the vote, according to the country’s electoral authority.
The independent candidate Tebun received 5.32 million votes, out of a total of 5.63 million citizens who exercised their right to vote, i.e. he received 94.65% of the votes, according to the electoral authority.
On Saturday night it was announced that the turnout was 48%, while at present no new figures have been given.
Complaints about violations during voting
However, one of Tebun’s opponents, the moderate Islamist candidate Abdelaali Hassani, had denounced “violations” during the vote.
According to his campaign team, there was allegedly “pressure on some polling station officials to ‘inflate’ the results”, mainly the turnout.
The turnout was a major bet in the election, while the victory of the 78-year-old Tebun was indisputable for the experts. Apart from the Islamist candidate, Teboun’s other opponent was Youssef Ousis, president of the Socialist Forces Front, the oldest opposition party, which has its electoral base in Kabylia, in eastern Algeria.
For his first term, Tebun won the December 2019 election receiving 58% of the vote but with a turnout of 39.83% (60% abstention).
Source: RES-MPE
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