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Algeria votes today as turnout anxiety overshadows its tenth parliamentary election
Algerians are choosing 407 members of the People's National Assembly on Thursday in an election shaped by sweeping new electoral laws, mass candidate disqualifications and a ruling establishment acutely aware that a repeat of 2021's record-low 23 percent turnout would carry its own verdict.
Algeria heads to the polls as fears of record-low turnout overshadow legislative vote
Algerians vote on Thursday 2 July to elect 407 members of parliament in the first legislative contest since President Tebboune's re-election, with the central question being whether citizens will show up at all after the 2021 poll recorded a 23 percent turnout — the lowest since independence.
France and Algeria in secret talks to swap Algerian consular agent's release for detained journalist Christophe Gleizes
Negotiations between Paris and Algiers over the fate of French sports journalist Christophe Gleizes, imprisoned in Algeria since June 2025, now hinge on the possible release by France of an Algerian consular agent charged with involvement in the abduction of a government critic on French soil, Le Mo
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