2019 Algerian presidential election

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2019 Algerian presidential election

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Registered	24,464,161
Turnout	39.88%
Nominee Abdelmadjid Tebboune Abdelkader Bengrina Ali Benflis Party Independent (FLN) El Binaa AGL [fr] Popular vote 4,947,523 1,477,836 897,831 Percentage 58.13% 17.37% 10.55%   Nominee Azzedine Mihoubi Abdelaziz Belaïd [fr] Party RND Future Front Popular vote 619,225 568,000 Percentage 7.28% 6.67%
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President before election Abdelkader Bensalah (acting) Independent Elected President Abdelmadjid Tebboune Independent

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Presidential elections were held in Algeria on 12 December 2019.^[1] The election had originally been scheduled for 18 April, but was postponed due to sustained weekly protests against plans by the incumbent president Abdelaziz Bouteflika to run for a fifth term.^[2] Bouteflika resigned on 2 April and Abdelkader Bensalah was elected acting president by parliament a week later.^[3] On 10 April the election was rescheduled for 4 July.^[4] On 2 June the Constitutional Council postponed the elections again, citing a lack of candidates.^[5] A new electoral authority, Autorité nationale indépendante des élections (ANIE), was created in mid-September as an alternative to the existing Haute instance indépendante de surveillance des élections [fr] (HIISE) defined by the 2016 constitution.^[6] The election was rescheduled for 12 December 2019 and ANIE, of disputed constitutional validity,^[7][6] announced five valid candidates on 2 November.^[8] In their 200000 strong protest on 1 November,^[9] Algerian protestors rejected the 12 December election and called for a radical change in the system to take place first.^[10] The Forces of the Democratic Alternative (FDA) alliance and the Justice and Development Front also called for boycotting the 12 December election, and the FDA called for creating a constituent assembly.^[11]