Algerian president speaks after casting his ballot inside a polling station during the presidential elections, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024, in Algiers, Algeria.
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Algeria
Abdelmajid Tebboune was sworn in on Tuesday for a second term as Algeria’s president, in a ceremony at the Folks’s Palace on the west coast of the capital. It comes after the country’s constitutional court confirmed his election win on Saturday.
According to the country’s election authority, Tebboune secured 7.7 million votes, which equates to 84.3 percent of the vote. It’s a significantly larger determine than his 2019 win with 58 percent of the vote, in which the election had an abstention rate of appropriate over 46 percent. But the total is decrease than this year’s initial result, that had been contested by two of Tebboune’s opponents.
The 78 year-stale has been criticised over his human rights story since coming to vitality. According to Amnesty Internaitonal, beneath his rule, authorities in the country have ‘maintained their zero-tolerance approach to dissenting opinions’, and ‘repression of civic space’.
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