Algeria confirms Tebboune’s landslide reelection

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Algeria confirms Tebboune’s landslide reelection

Algeria’s constitutional court has certified the landslide victory of President Abdelmadjid Tebboune in last weekend’s election after retabulating vote counts that he and his two opponents had called into question.

The court said that it had reviewed local voting data to settle questions about irregularities that Tebboune’s opponents had alleged in two appeals on Monday.

“After verification of the minutes of the regions and correction of the errors noted in the counting of the votes,” it had lowered Tebboune’s vote share and determined that his two opponents had won hundreds of thousands more votes than previously reported, the constitutional court’s President Omar Belhadj said on Saturday.

The court’s decision makes Tebboune the official winner of the September 7 election. His government will next decide when to inaugurate him for a second term.

The court’s retabulated figures showed Tebboune leading Islamist challenger Abdellali Hassan Cherif by around 75 percentage points. With 7.7 million votes, the first-term president won 84.3 per cent of the vote, surpassing 2019 win by millions of votes and a double-digit margin.

Cherif, running with the Movement of Society for Peace, won nearly 950,000 votes, or roughly 9.6 per cent. The Socialist Forces Front’s Youcef Aouchiche won more than 580,000 votes, or roughly 6.1 per cent.

Notably, both challengers surpassed the threshold required to receive reimbursement for campaign expenses. Under its election laws, Algeria pays for political campaigns that receive more than a five per cent vote share.

The results announced by the election authority last week showed Cherif and Aouchiche with 3.2 per cent and 2.2 per cent of the vote, respectively. Both were criticised for participating in an election that government critics denounced as a way for Algeria’s political elite to make a show of democracy amid broader political repression.

Throughout the campaign, each of the three campaigns emphasised participation, calling on voters and youth to participate and defy calls to boycott the ballot. The court announced nationwide turnout was 46.1 per cent, surpassing the 2019 presidential election when 39.9 per cent of the electorate participated.

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