Algeria is waiting, on Sunday 13 June, for the results of the legislative elections on Saturday. We work towards the participation of about 30% of about 24 million voters, the lowest number of legislative elections in at least twenty years, in Algeria.
With our special correspondent in Algiers, Magali Lagrange
The early elections, which took place two years after Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s departure clearly from Algeria. Some newspapers prefer to see the political result, but many question the extent of the votes cast.
“Voters voted,” El Moudjahid published online. Dagbladet awakens a parliament of change, as promised by Algerian power and a new forthcoming vote, the local election, scheduled for the end of the year, which will inaugurate the constitutional and institutional completion, which will usher in a new way of governing.
Rejection
Dagbladet El Watan and Liberté, for their part, emphasize the voters’ low participation. “Algerians avoid ballot boxes”, we can read in the picture of a deserted polling station, on the first page of El Watan. “An abstentionist tidal wave,” adds Liberty, for whom the level of abstinence reflects the broad rejection, not of the election, but of “systemic frameworks for the country’s political function.”
On the TSA website, however, political scientist Driss Chérif reminds that the law does not set a threshold for the election to be valid and that “the course has more political significance”.
Cartoonist Dilemp publishes on the website for the freedom of cartoons, which shows the journalists in front of an empty polling station and asks the question: “Where are the Algerians gone?” “Here,” replies a crowd behind its back, behind bars, a reference to the context of oppression for several weeks.
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