Constitutional Council to decide on Algeria poll results

Algeria’s Constitutional Council is expected to decide on Monday or Tuesday on the lawfulness of the presidential elections held on April 9.

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• The Council started receiving appeals on Sunday from the poll candidates against the election results. They issued claims of vote fraud committed in a number of voting centres.
• Candidate Djahid Younsi said 1,600 voices in his favour were transferred Moussa Touati who received the third largest number of voices cast.
• Leader of the Workers’ Party, Louisa Hanoun who followed the re-elected president Abdelaziz Bouteflika expressed dissatisfaction over the poll results.
• Algerian interior minister announced the results on April 10 in a press conference in Algiers.
• The law stipulates that the Constitutional Council announces the official results of the presidential elections ten days after the announcement of the interior ministry.
•  Re-elected Persident Bouteflika is expected to take the oath of office before the State’s executives after the announcement of the Council to kick off his their mandate.