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The 78-year-old has been criticized over his human rights record since coming to power. According to Amnesty International, under his rule, authorities in the country have ‘maintained their zero-tolerance approach to dissenting opinions’, and ‘repression of civic space’.
Algerian Abdelmajid Tebboune was sworn in for a second term as Algeria’s president. The country’s constitutional court confirmed his election win.Tebboune secured 7.7 million votes, which equates to 84.3 percent of the vote. It’s a significantly higher figure than his 2019 win with 58 percent of the vote. At that time, the election had an abstention rate of just over 46 percent. But the total of votes cast is lower than this year’s initial result. This had been contested by two of Tebboune’s opponents.
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The 78-year-old has been criticized over his human rights record since coming to power. According to Amnesty International, under his rule, authorities in the country have ‘maintained their zero-tolerance approach to dissenting opinions’, and ‘repression of civic space’.
