Algeria Elections survive boycott, International Media say

Arab and foreign press, said on Friday that the rate of participation in Algeria elections is large, in light of predictions of experts about the reluctance of citizen to vote, adding that the results of legislative elections in 2007 noticed a lower percentage, although the conditions were normal.

Arab Online website says that “the elections Algeria escapes from falling into the boycott, especially as Islamists were sure of taking the power, adding that the Algerian government won the bet of citizens’ participation in the legislative elections that took place Thursday and that exceeded the rate of participation in the last election, as the period to vote in one third of polling centers, noting that the rate of participation in the legislative elections noticed a substantial rise”‬ ‭. ‬

Agence France-Presse thinks that “The Algerian government won a bet of the participation rate which exceeded that of the last elections, adding that the biggest challenge in this elections, for both the authorities and the parties is mobilizing voters to give their votes , given the low participation of voters 2007 legislative elections, which noticed a boycott rate of 64%”.

The French “Le Point” talked about the doubts of Algerians in the rate of participation in “the first elections held in Algeria since the Arab spring,” considered that this result “the pride of the official Algeria”, noting that the participation rate, which reached 42.9% is better than the rate of 2007.