Two party leaders boycotted swearing-in ceremony as a sign of protest.

A prominent member in the Algerian workers'party, Ramdane Taazibt, has declared that the absence of his party leader, Louiza Hanoune, at the swearing-in ceremony made by re-elected president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, is a protest against what he called the “electoral fraud” that characterized the presidential election announcing a new political initiative that aims to ground democracy and cut the ties with the single party era.