Abdelmadjid Tebboune, President of Algeria. Reuters, ‘Abdelmadjid Tebboune (78), President of Algeria in North Africa, succeeded in re-election with a voting rate of about 95%.’,
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, ‘According to the Associated Press on the 9th (local time), the Algerian National Independent Electoral Authority (ANIE) announced today that Tebboune candidate received 534,000 votes out of 563,000 total votes cast in the presidential election held on the 7th. Moderate Islamist party candidate Abdelrali Harrani Cherif (57) received about 3%, and the Secretary General of the center-left Socialist Front, Youssef Aouchiche (41), received about 2% of the vote.’,
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, ‘President Tebboune was elected in December 2019 with a 58% vote share following the nationwide protests that led to the resignation of then-President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in April 2019, who was seeking a fifth term. He announced in March that the presidential election, originally scheduled for December this year, would be moved up to September 7th and declared his re-election bid. President Tebboune received support from the military and established political factions. However, the voter turnout was only 48%, and Reuters reported that Cherif’s campaign raised allegations of electoral fraud.’
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