Algeria President to Run Again With Turnout Likely to Suffer
- Elections due to take place Sept. 7, three months early
- Dissatisfaction rife in OPEC member over lack of opposition
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said he’ll seek a second term in elections he’s highly likely to win, taking advantage of an early poll that could hurt turnout and expose political fault lines in the North African OPEC member.
“The state’s revenues have strengthened, the bleeding of the public treasury has ended and Algeria has recovered what could have been recovered from looted funds estimated at billions of dollars,” Tebboune, 78, was quoted as saying on state TV on Thursday, referring to his first term that began in late 2019.