2019 Algerian presidential election

2019 Algerian presidential election

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Registered24,464,161
Turnout39.88%
 
Nominee Abdelmadjid Tebboune Abdelkader Bengrina Ali Benflis
Party Independent (FLN) El Binaa AGL
Popular vote 4,947,523 1,477,836 897,831
Percentage 58.13% 17.37% 10.55%

 
Nominee Azzedine Mihoubi Abdelaziz Belaïd
Party RND Future Front
Popular vote 619,225 568,000
Percentage 7.28% 6.67%

Results by province

President before election

Abdelkader Bensalah (acting)
Independent

Elected President

Abdelmadjid Tebboune
Independent

Poster announcing the presidential election before it was postponed

Presidential elections were held in Algeria on 12 December 2019.[1] The election had originally been scheduled for 18 April, but was postponed due to sustained weekly protests against plans by the incumbent president Abdelaziz Bouteflika to run for a fifth term.[2] Bouteflika resigned on 2 April and Abdelkader Bensalah was elected acting president by parliament a week later.[3] On 10 April the election was rescheduled for 4 July.[4] On 2 June the Constitutional Council postponed the elections again, citing a lack of candidates.[5] A new electoral authority, Autorité nationale indépendante des élections (ANIE), was created in mid-September as an alternative to the existing Haute instance indépendante de surveillance des élections (HIISE) defined by the 2016 constitution.[6] The election was rescheduled for 12 December 2019 and ANIE, of disputed constitutional validity,[7][6] announced five valid candidates on 2 November.[8] In their 200000 strong protest on 1 November,[9] Algerian protestors rejected the 12 December election and called for a radical change in the system to take place first.[10] The Forces of the Democratic Alternative (FDA) alliance and the Justice and Development Front also called for boycotting the 12 December election, and the FDA called for creating a constituent assembly.[11]

  1. ^ "Algerian presidential election fixed for December 12, says interim president". France 24. 16 September 2019. Archived from the original on 29 September 2019. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
  2. ^ Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika drops bid for fifth term Archived 31 August 2019 at the Wayback Machine BBC News, 11 March 2019
  3. ^ Abdelkader Bensalah named Algeria's interim president Archived 17 September 2019 at the Wayback Machine France24, 9 April 2019
  4. ^ "Algeria to hold elections on July 4: presidency". Al Jazeera. 10 April 2019. Archived from the original on 12 April 2019. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
  5. ^ "Algeria elections planned for 4 July 'impossible', authorities say". BBC News. 2 June 2019. Archived from the original on 2 June 2019. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  6. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Liberte_ANIE_baclage_procedures was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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  11. ^ Cite error: The named reference ElWatan_boycott_widens was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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