Rabat – Algeria’s current President, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, has been re-elected with over 94% of the vote, according to the country’s electoral authority on Sunday.
Tebboune’s main opponents, Abdelali Hassani Cherif and Youcef Aouchiche, received 3% and 2.1% of the votes, respectively.
According to France 24, voter turnout remained low, with fewer than six million out of 24 million registered voters participating.
This continues the trend of low turnout seen during Tebboune’s first term.
The election comes five years after protests led to the removal of his predecessor, Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
Despite his win, protests have been prominent through Tebboune’s first term, with observers pointing to a socio-economic crisis as the main factor for people’s discontent.
Tebboune’s government also marked an ongoing deteriorating human rights in the North African country.
In 2023, United Nations experts warned about the deteriorating human rights in Algeria due to the ongoing crackdown against activists and human rights movements.
UN Special Rapporteur covering the defense of human rights, Mary Lawlor, commented on Algeria’s decision to dissolve “La Ligue Algerienne pour La Defense des Droits de L’Homme” as well as “Le Rassemblement Actions Jeunesse” (RAJ).
These associations are some of the main human rights organizations in Algeria.
“Acts of limited meditation and repression against the human rights movement must end,” she said in a report in 2023, stressing that the decision to dissolve the human rights association reflects “an alarming crackdown on civil society organizations.”
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