{"id":281,"date":"2009-04-10T17:49:13","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T15:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.africanews.it\/english\/?p=281"},"modified":"2009-04-10T17:49:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T15:49:13","slug":"algeria-bouteflika-is-reelected-for-the-3rd-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/algeria-bouteflika-is-reelected-for-the-3rd-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Algeria: Bouteflika is reelected for the 3rd time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abdelaziz <strong>Bouteflika<\/strong> is reelected as president of Algeria for third consecutive mandate in office.<\/p>\n<p>12,911,705 votes were counted in favour of the former president during the elections held esterday Thursday 9 April 2009. Bouteflika won a 90.24 percent majority, as stated by the Minister of State, Minister of Interior and Local Authorities Noureddine Yazid <strong>Zerhouni<\/strong> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Algeria website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elmoudjahid.com\/accueil\/englishedition\/31412.html\"><strong>elmoudjahid.com<\/strong><\/a> reports that Bouteflika is followed by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louisa_Hanoune\">Louisa <strong>Hanoune<\/strong><\/a> with 604,258 votes, that is, 4.22 percent, Moussa <strong>Touati<\/strong> with 330,570 votes (2.31 per cent), Djahid <strong>Younsi<\/strong> with 176,674 votes (1.37 percent), Ali <strong>Fawzi Reba\u00efne<\/strong> with 133,129 votes (0.93 percent) and Mohamed <strong>Said<\/strong> with 132,242 votes ( 0.92 percent), Zerhouni added in a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/7993671.stm\">BBC<\/a> reporter in Algiers, Christian Fraser, the victory of the former president was never in doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Although <strong>two soldier<\/strong> were <strong>wounded<\/strong>, thursday elections have been peaceful. Nevertheless the BBC reports that&nbsp; some opposition described the election as a charade.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[There was] a real tsunami of massive fraud which reached an industrial scale,&#8221; the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Socialist_Forces_Front\"><strong>Front of Socialist Forces<\/strong><\/a>, which boycotted the election, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Former head of Algeria&#8217;s human rights league <strong>Ali Yehya Abdel-Nour<\/strong> told the BBC the official voter turnout figures had been exaggerated.<\/p>\n<h3>Online news coverage<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elmoudjahid.com\/accueil\/englishedition\/31412.html\">elmoudjahid.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/7993671.stm\">BBC<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.africanews.com\/site\/No_surprises_in_Algeria_polls\/list_messages\/24244\">africanews.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.misna.org\/news.asp?a=1&amp;IDLingua=2&amp;id=242909\">misna.org<\/a> [in Italian], <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2009\/WORLD\/africa\/04\/10\/algeria.election\/\">cnn.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthtimes.org\/articles\/show\/263923,algerias-bouteflika-wins-re-election-in-landslide--summary.html\">earthtimes.org<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=640\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abdelaziz Bouteflika is reelected as president of Algeria for third consecutive mandate in office. 12,911,705 votes were counted in favour of the former president during the elections held esterday Thursday 9 April 2009. Bouteflika won a 90.24 percent majority, as stated by the Minister of State, Minister of Interior and Local Authorities Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}