Algerian authorities declared President Abdelmadjid Tebboune the winner of Saturday’s election, with less than half of registered voters casting ballots.
Official preliminary results gave Tebboune 95 per cent of the vote, enough to avoid a second round. Abdelaâli Hassani Cherif won 3 per cent and Youcef Aouchiche secured 2 per cent. The turnout reached 48 per cent.
However, late Sunday night, candidates including Tebboune and Cherif issued a joint statement objecting to the preliminary results announced by the electoral commission.
We inform public opinion of the ambiguity, contradiction, vagueness and conflicting numbers recorded with the announcement of the provisional results of the presidential elections.
If Tebboune continues to rule, the government is likely to continue its generous social spending programme. The president also pledged to increase unemployment benefits, pensions, and public housing programmes.
Meanwhile, Algeria’s aspirations to join the BRICS group when it expanded in January were derailed. Instead, the bloc invited Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates to join. Instead, Algeria joined the BRICS development bank last month.
Algeria’s efforts to secure greater stability in Africa’s Sahel region also collapsed, with an attempt to mediate between rival forces in Niger after last year’s coup failing.
