The current leader in Algeria, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, has been re-elected as the president.

08.09.2024 23:11

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune won the presidency with a 94.65% vote share in the early elections. Tebboune will continue his term for another period.

Algeria went to early elections. In the elections, the current President Abdulmajid Tebboune was re-elected as the president with a 94.65% vote share.

CURRENT PRESIDENT RE-ELECTED

Mohamed Charfi, the President of the Independent National Electoral Authority of Algeria, announced in a press conference that Tebboune was re-elected as the president by receiving 94.65% of the votes. Charfi also stated that the candidate of the Islamic-oriented party, the Movement for the Society of Peace (MSP), Abdelaali Hassani Cherif, received 3.17% of the votes, while the Secretary General of the Socialist Forces Movement (FFS), Youssef Aouchiche, came last with 2.16% of the votes. Charfi had announced the voter turnout as 48%.

ELECTION PROCESS IN ALGERIA

In Algeria, after the mass popular protests in 2019, Abdulaziz Bouteflika, who had been in power for 20 years, was forced to resign, and Abdulmajid Tebboune became the country's new president by receiving 58% of the votes in the elections.

Tebboune, while running for another term, received support from the military, media, religious communities, employers, and some political parties.