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The country’s election authority has approved only two candidates to challenge Tebboune: 57-year-old Islamist Abdelaali Hassani Cherif and 41-year-old socialist Youcef Aouchiche, a former journalist running for a large centre-left opposition party.
Prospective voters in gas-rich Algeria said they are more concerned about prolonged inflation’s effects on the spiking prices of school supplies, potatoes, and coffee. Military-backed President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, 78, appears poised to breeze to a second term.
Political apathy has reasserted itself among many prospective voters, while the country’s fledgling opposition alleges that political elites who run the country have again entrenched themselves in power.
The country’s election authority has approved only two candidates to challenge Tebboune: 57-year-old Islamist Abdelaali Hassani Cherif and 41-year-old socialist Youcef Aouchiche, a former journalist running for a large center-left opposition party.
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All three candidates have been urging citizens to vote. Of the country’s 45 million people, 23 million are registered. Candidates hope to improve on the 14% turnout of the 2019 elections, which protesters boycotted. Activists in 2019 criticized authorities for hurriedly scheduling those elections that led to Tebboune, an establishment candidate seen as close to Algeria’s military, taking power.
