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Algeria is gearing up for an election year with an aging president and an opposition that is yet to present a candidate. The Rally for Culture and Democracy, among the rare opposition parties ...
Algerian law provides the court 10 days from the announcement of provisional election results to rule on the appeals. A verdict could require the election authority to recalculate each candidate’s totals without calling into question Tebboune’s victory, for which he has already begun receiving congratulatory messages from Algeria’s ...
Algeria will hold its next election on Sept. 7, giving first-term President Abdelmajid Tebboune more than five months to campaign should he decide to seek a second term leading the oil-rich north ...
Eleven prominent Algerian opposition figures wrote an open letter this week, denouncing “the authoritarian climate” surrounding the country’s upcoming presidential election and calling for a ...
While Algeria's unemployment rate fell to 12.25% last year from more than 14% during the COVID pandemic in 2020, many young Algerians like Belgacem are seeking work and Tebboune has promised to ...
The civil war resulted in more than 100,000 deaths since 1991. However, Algerians believe that the national death count was close to 3,000,000. Although the security situation in the country has greatly improved, addressing the underlying issues which brought about the political turmoil of the 1990s remains the government's major task.
Throughout the election season, Tebboune highlighted his administration's achievements despite corruption and the COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria, while pledging to create 450,000 jobs after he is reelected and raise monthly unemployment benefits for people aged 19 to 40 from 13,000 dinars to 20,000, equivalent to the Algerian minimum wage. [15]
The 2017 parliamentary elections were characterized by a low turnout of 35%, lower than the 43% turnout in the 2012 parliamentary elections.The ruling coalition, an alliance between the National Liberation Front (FLN) and the National Rally for Democracy (RND), retained the absolute majority of seats in the National People's Assembly, despite a sharp decline in seats won by FLN.