Algeria’s incumbent President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has been re-elected with almost 95 per cent of the vote, the country’s electoral authority ANIE said Sunday.
“Out of 5,630,000 voters recorded, 5,320,000 voted for the independent candidate Abdelmadjid Tebboune, accounting for 94.65 percent of the vote,” ANIE head Mohamed Charfi told reporters in the capital Algiers.
Tebboune, 78, was heavily favoured to secure a second term in the race against moderate Islamist Abdelaali Hassani, 57, and socialist candidate Youcef Aouchiche, 41.
“The election was marked by broad transparency” and “reflected the electoral maturity of the people”, said Charfi.
But he did not provide the official turnout rate, which was seen as Tebboune’s major challenge in a vote where his victory was all but certain.
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