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Algeria: Legislative elections to be held on 12 June, the presidential office said
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ALGIERS, 12 March, 2021 (TON): The date for early legislative elections has been announced by the President of Algeria Abdelmadjid Tebboune, i.e. 12 June, 2021, the presidential office said on Thursday.
The date to be important for the early legislative elections for the Abdelmadjid dissolved the parliament last month.
Legislative elections were scheduled to be held in 2022, but Tebboune in February dissolved parliament and called for polls to be held before the end of the year as part of reforms.
A statement from his office said, the upcoming election of the lower house of the national assembly would be held on the basis of a new electoral law, which Tebboune also ratified on Thursday.
However, following the mass protests by the Hirak movement, the vote is part of his promised political reforms and he also released 59 protestors as part of the political reforms.
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