Algeria has been busy since August 15, 2024 with popular rallies and community meetings organized by the candidates in the run-up to the presidential election. Three candidates – the incumbent president, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, the president of the Society for Peace Movement (MSP), Abdelali Hassani Cherif, and the first secretary of the Socialist Forces Front (FFS), Youcef Aouchiche – will spend 21 days talking directly to voters in a bid to convince them to cast their ballots for them. The Algerian presidential election will be held on September 7, 2024.
“This story of 3 competitors has been thought out to return to three poles, that is to create 3 poles to avoid this cacophony of multiple political parties which, in the end, don’t back up their words, so we’re trying to identify certain party trios, so the Algerian political scene will be animated by two political parties and an independent candidate, who is that of the army”.
Hichem Aboud, Journalist – Algeria
As President of the Republic of Algeria from 2019, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, a candidate in this election, has pledged to pursue his social support policies, improve the purchasing power of Algerians and strengthen various aspects of economic development. He has pledged to revise local, municipal and provincial laws, to extend the powers of elected representatives in local elections in order to strengthen democracy, and to revise administrative boundaries. The election campaign is scheduled to run until September 3.
« Electoral fraud is announced as soon as a single date is set in a single day for a pluralist election. In other words, the dice are loaded, the game is up, the winner is known in advance, so it abolishes the sense of electoral games that we would have liked to see ».
Hichem Aboud, Journalist – Algeria
As a reminder, the Independent Electoral Authority (ANIE) announced that, following a review of the electoral rolls, the electorate comprised 24,351,551 registered voters, including 23,486,061 voters in the interior of the country and 865,490 abroad. The President will therefore be chosen on the basis of the candidate who has the support of the largest number of these voters.