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Low Turnout - But Algeria's Ruling Party Wins Elections

Algeria's long-dominant National Liberation Front (FLN) won weekend parliamentary elections, but with a significantly reduced number of seats and with the country's lowest ever turnout at 23 percent, the electoral board has said. The vote was boycotted by the long-running Hirak protest movement and followed a string of arrests of opposition figures, with police deployed heavily in the capital Algiers to pre-empt any attempt to hold rallies. Only 5.6 million of more than 24 million eligible voters lodged a ballot with more than a million invalid votes cast, the ANIE electoral board said in provisional figures.

The vote was the first parliamentary election since Abdelaziz Bouteflika was ousted in 2019 after 20 years as president, facing protests over corruption, joblessness and repression.

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