Algerian protesters take part in an anti-government demonstration in the capital Algiers on December 12, 2019 during the presidential election. – Five candidates are running in Algeria’s presidential election to replace ousted Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the country’s election authority said Saturday, amid widespread protests against the vote.
The electoral authority said its chairman Mohamed Charfi would release the results at 11 am , an announcement that could prompt tens of thousands of election opponents to pour out onto the streets in new protests. No exit polls were published but a spokesman for Tebboune said his candidate had won an outright majority.On Thursday, a record six in 10 Algerians abstained, Charfi said, the highest rate for a multi-party election since independence from France in 1962.
Late in the afternoon, an AFP reporter saw police using baton charges to disperse remaining protesters. That earned a sharp rebuke from one man in his 80s:
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