Incumbent Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has won the country’s snap presidential election, gaining 84.30% votes, President of the Algerian Constitutional Court Omar Belhadj told.
“Abdelmadjid Tebboune has won the election with absolute majority, having received 84.30% of votes,” Belhadj told a press conference.
The appeals filed by two other candidates earlier this week, aimed at challenging the preliminary results, have been accepted and reviewed, the court chief said on Saturday.
Snap presidential election were held in Algeria on September 7. The election authority said last week that Tebboune won in the first round of the election, gaining over 94% of the vote. Tebboune’s rivals – the leader of the opposition Movement of Society for Peace party, Abdelaali Hassani Cherif, and the candidate from the Socialist Forces Front, Youcef Aouchiche – filed appeals to the Constitutional Court on Tuesday, challenging the preliminary results. UNI/SPUTNIK AKS
