Algeria

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 LagrangeThe early…

Twenty-four million voters were called to the polls to elect 407 deputies for the future National Assembly. Polling stations closed their doors at 8 pm local time after an hour's extension. One of the issues in the vote was turnout. According to the election authority, however, the turnout was 14% at 4 pm. At the capital's office, the audience was not at the meeting last Saturday.…

Algeria goes to the polls on Saturday for a new parliament that is intended to meet the demands of democratic protesters and turn a new leaf for the troubled, albeit gas-rich, country. Not everyone is happy about the election, as many activists are planning boycotts. Authorities have tightened the grip on Hirak's protest movement in recent weeks, and police have arrested a politician and journalist who are prominent opposition figures ahead of the vote. The early election is intended to exemplify…

The offices will open this Saturday at 8. 24 million voters are urged to elect the 407 deputies to the National People's Congress, for a five-year term, in early legislative elections. This election, organized after the revision of the constitution, marks a new stage in the roadmap that an Algerian power has set out in search of legitimacy, more than two years after the fall of former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. If the former National Assembly was dominated by the FLN and RND parties, its composition could change.…

The winner in Tunisia 2-0 on June 11, 2021, the Algerian team signed its 27th game without defeat in a row. The Algerians have thus done better than the Ivory Coast Didier Drogba, undefeated in 26 matches between 2010 and 2013. Algeria has undoubtedly entered the history of African football on June 11, 2021 in Radès. Not…

The arrests took place on Thursday evening, two days before the early elections. A vote in which Algerian voters are called to elect 407 deputies for the future National Assembly. It is rejected by Hirak and by part of the opposition. One of the challenges will also be turnout, low during the 2019 presidential election and the referendum on the revision of the constitution at the end of last year.…

In Algeria, 24 million voters are called for early elections on Saturday, June 12. They must elect the 407 deputies who will make up the future National People's Congress for five years. The main part of the vote will be the turnout, following a presidential election and a referendum on the revision of the constitution, marked by a strong abstention. Saturday's vote is rejected by Hirak's supporters…

The early legislative elections must take place this Saturday, June 12, in Algeria in order to elect the 407 deputies to the National People's Assembly for five years. For power, it is a further step to restore all their legitimacy to the country's institutions after the fall of Abdelaziz Bouteflika in 2019. But this election is rejected within Hirak and by part of the political class, in a context of…

Abdelmajid Tebboune embarked on a lengthy interview published Thursday morning by the French newspaper Le Point. The Algerian president returned to business a few months ago after a long recovery in Germany. Questioned by Algerian historians and journalists Kamel Daoud and Adlène Meddi, President Tebboune returned to many questions from his presidency, especially Algeria's external relations with the…

After almost 15 months without flights between France and Algeria, Air Algérie will reopen its flight connection between Paris and Algiers on Tuesday 1 June. Currently, Algerians in France have to make do with two flights a week, Tuesdays and Thursdays. A partial reopening that frustrates members of the community, sometimes deprived of seeing their families for over a year and a half.…