Algeria's constitutional court confirms Tebboune's re-election

On September 14, 2024, news from Algiers. After recounting the ballots challenged by President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and his two opponents, Algeria's constitutional court confirmed Tebboune's overwhelming victory in last weekend's election.

The court said that to address the alleged irregularities claimed in the appeals of Tebboune's opponents, it reviewed local voting data. Omar Belhadj, president of the constitutional court, said that after verifying the records of various regions and correcting vote-counting errors, Tebboune's vote percentage decreased, but he still led Islamist challenger Abdelali Hassan Cherif by about 75 percentage points. Tebboune received 7.7 million votes, with a vote percentage of 84.3%. Cherif won nearly 950,000 votes, accounting for about 9.6%; Youssef Ouchiche of the Front of Social Forces won more than 580,000 votes, accounting for about 6.1%. Both challengers exceeded the threshold required to obtain reimbursement of campaign expenses.

The court announced that the national voter turnout was 46.1%, higher than the voter participation rate in the 2019 presidential election. The court's ruling makes Tebboune the official winner of the September 7 election, and his government will decide when to hold his inauguration ceremony for his second term. In this election, all three election camps emphasized participation, called on voters and young people to vote, and ignored calls for boycotting the vote.