Algerian presidential election: a scandalous amateurish fraud that even the re-elected president contests
In yesterday's edition, we reported that the percentage of votes cast had been grossly inflated to 48.03%. This figure was slyly announced at 00:48 on the APS thread, but was not repeated on television the next day, nor was it announced by Mohamed Charfi, president of the Independent Electoral Authority (ANIE), when the results were announced, in which Abdelmadjid Tebboune obtained 94.65% of the votes, a result reminiscent of the Middle Ages.
This grossly inflated figure did not fail to attract the attention of informed observers, as we noted in our previous edition. From 26.46% at 5pm, the turnout had risen to 48.03% at 8pm. It was as if more than seven million Algerians had gone to the polling stations in just three hours. The fraud is blatant. Tebboune himself shared with his rivals the challenge to this abuse in a statement issued late Sunday afternoon. At the same time, he distanced himself from his mentors, who are the real authors of this scandal. A scandal that we expose in detail.
Electoral fraud is a crime punishable by law
In this seventh edition of the multi-party presidential elections in Algeria, 5,630,196 voters were registered.
According to figures published by ANIE, Abdelmadjid Tebboune obtained 5,329,253 votes. Abdelali Hassani Cherif, the unelected candidate, came second with 178,797 votes, closely followed by Aouchiche Youcef, the FFS candidate, who received a meagre 122,146 votes.
The total number of votes cast for the three candidates was 5,630,196 out of 24,351,551 registered voters. These figures do not give a turnout rate of 48.03% at all. To reach this rate, 11,695,785 voters have to be counted. Where are the 6,366,505 voters? It cannot be said that these are invalid ballots. In that case, the election would have to be annulled because there were more invalid ballots than votes cast for the ‘lucky winner’.
No doubt, there was electoral fraud. In other words, people lurking in the shadows gambled with the future of an entire people and an entire country. It is an unforgivable crime. Abdelmadjid Tebboune, as the country's supreme magistrate long before these elections, must assume his responsibilities. This scandal has tainted him more than any other official. He is the first to suffer. To remain silent in the face of such a scandal and to be impassive in the face of shadow fraudsters is to be complicit in an immeasurable betrayal. It is a betrayal of the trust of a people who understood it all, and it turned out that they were not wrong to boycott these elections en masse. They knew that the current regime was a fraud. But no one imagined that the fraud would reach such proportions.
