.
Legislative Polls open in Algeria, results expected on Sunday
- font size decrease font size
increase font size
File Photo
ALGIERS, 12 June, 2021 (TON): On Saturday, polls in Algeria opened for legislative election.
In 2019, President Bouteflika was forced from his office; it's the first legislative polls since he left.
President Tebboune says the vote is to tackle corruption and build a "new Algeria".
Some 24 million Algerians are called upon to elect the 407 deputies of the National People's Assembly for a five-year term.
Voters will have more than 13,000 candidates to choose from- more than half of them listed as an independent.
This is the first time that such a large number of independents have come forward to contest against the party candidates.
On Sunday, the preliminary results of the vote are expected to be released in public.
Leave a comment
Make sure you enter all the required information, indicated by an asterisk (*). HTML code is not allowed.
