Algeria’s Constitutional Court Approves Presidential Candidates
Algeria’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday gave the green light to three candidates for the upcoming presidential elections on September 7. The candidates are incumbent President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, who is running as an independent, Abdelaali Hassani Cherif, head of the Movement of Society for Peace, and Youcef Aouchiche, secretary general of the Socialist Forces Front.
The National Independent Authority for Elections (ANIE) had initially validated the candidacy of these three individuals last Thursday while rejecting 13 other applications. ANIE stressed that the Constitutional Court had the final say in approving candidate requests and handling appeals for rejected applications.
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According to Algeria’s electoral regulations, a presidential candidate must secure either 600 signatures from elected officials in municipal, provincial, or parliamentary councils, or at least 50,000 signatures from eligible voters across a minimum of 29 provinces, with at least 1,200 signatures from each province.
Tebboune, who first took office in December 2019, won his position under unique circumstances after a political upheaval. This period of unrest saw mass protests that led to the resignation of the late President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in April 2019.
More than 26 million Algerians out of a population exceeding 45 million are eligible to vote in the upcoming election.
