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Bouteflika denounces boycott calls as opponent warns against electoral fraud
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Torn posters of current Algerian president #Abdelaziz_Bouteflika, who is running for re-election, appear in the city of Borj al-Bahri 24 kilometers east of the capital Algiers on April 15, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Patrick Baz)

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika urged Algerians to defy boycott calls and vote in Thursday’s election, as his rival #Ali_Benflis said an “army” of supporters would monitor the poll and warned against fraud. The ailing 77-year-old incumbent is widely expected to clinch a fourth term in office, but he faces the damaging possibility of low voter turnout, with opposition parties and a youth protest group urging Algerians to snub the poll. “I call on all citizens to participate in the presidential election and express their choice,” Bouteflika said (...)

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#Algeria: Public apathetic as presidential elections approach
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Supporters of Algerian President Abdelazziz Bouteflika (portraits) gather during a political meeting in the city of Tlemcen, some 600 km west of Algiers, ahead of next month’s presidential election. (Photo: AFP-Farouk Batiche) Supporters of Algerian President Abdelazziz Bouteflika (portraits) gather during a political meeting in the city of Tlemcen, some 600 km west of Algiers, ahead of next month’s presidential election. (Photo: AFP-Farouk Batiche)

Algiers: The electoral campaigns for the April 2014 presidential elections in Algeria have started in earnest. The candidates have scrambled to visit Algeria’s provinces, with the exception of the incumbent 76-years-old President #Abdelaziz_Bouteflika, who has dispatched (...)

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#Algeria: Private TV stations alter the electoral scene
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Algerian supporters of a movement called Barakat (meaning in Arabic “That’s enough”), campaigning for new leadership in Algeria, demonstrate holding banners and shout slogans against Algeria’s current President Bouteflika Abdelaziz running for a fourth term in the April 17 elections, outside the central school in downtown Algiers on March 27, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Farouk Batiche) Algerian supporters of a movement called Barakat (meaning in Arabic “That’s enough”), campaigning for new leadership in Algeria, demonstrate holding banners and shout slogans against Algeria’s current President Bouteflika Abdelaziz running for a fourth term in the April 17 elections, outside the central school in downtown Algiers on March 27, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Farouk (...)

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