Algeria candidates contest presidential results: Video
Losing candidates in Algeria’s just-ended elections are contesting the results from the polls.
Over 2 million Algerians went to the polls on September 7 to vote for a new presidential candidate. Abdelmadjid Tebboune was declared the winner over his two contenders, Abdelaali Hassani and Youssef Aouchiche of the Movement of Society for Peace and the Socialist Forces Front.
Tebboune won with a landslide of nearly 95 percent of the vote on Saturday, according to the country's electoral authority, ANIE.
Following the elections, Hassani and Aouchiche have described the results as a ‘fraud’.
“ANIE bears full responsibility for these dangerous deviations that undermine the election," Aouchiche said.
He vowed to appeal the results at the Constitutional Court. The court is expected to review all appeals and validate the final results. Hassani also described the figures announced by the ANIE as ‘false’, adding that they did not correspond to the statements presented by the polling stations to the candidates’ representatives.
