Its outgoing president Algeria Abdelmadjid Tebun was re-elected for a second term by receiving almost 95% of the vote, the president of the electoral authority, Anie, announced today.

Out of a total of 5.630 million “voters, 5.320 million voted for the independent candidate” Tebun, who received “that is 94.65% of the votes,” said Mohamed Sarfi.

Abdelmadjid Tebun re-elected president with almost 95%

Anie’s president did not give any updates on the turnout after announcing overnight an “average turnout of 48%” with the polls closing on Saturday at 8:00 p.m. (local time / 10:00 p.m. Greek time ).

“The elections were characterized by great transparency” and “reflect the electoral maturity of the people,” greeted the president of Anie.

A few hours earlier, however, one of Tebun’s rivals, the moderate Islamist candidate Abdelaali Hassani, had denounced “violations” during the vote.

According to his campaign team, there was allegedly “pressure on some polling station officials to ‘inflate’ the results”, mainly the turnout rate.

The same group called the “average participation rate” announced by Anie a “strange expression”.

The turnout was a major bet in the election, while the victory of the 78-year-old Tebun was indisputable for the experts. Apart from the Islamist candidate, the other challenger was Youssef Ousis, president of the Socialist Forces Front, the oldest opposition party, which has its electoral base in Kabylia, in eastern Algeria.

For his first term, Tebun won the December 2019 election receiving 58% of the vote but with a turnout of 39.83% (60% abstention).