Algeria (UNA/QNA) - Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune was elected for a new term in the presidential elections held yesterday, Saturday.
Mohamed Charfi, head of the Independent Election Authority in Algeria, announced in a statement today that Tebboune obtained, according to the preliminary results, 5 million, 329 thousand, and 253 votes, or 94.65 percent of the voters’ votes.
He added that Abdelali Hassani Cherif, the candidate of the Movement for a Peaceful Society, came in second place with 178 votes, representing 797 percent of the voters' votes, while Youssef Ouchich, the candidate of the Socialist Forces Front, came in third place with 3.17 votes, representing 122 percent of the voters' votes.
These are the first presidential elections to be held under the new constitution issued in November 2020.
The early presidential elections come after Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune announced last March that the date would be brought forward by three months.
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