Algeria

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Presidential elections were held in Algeria on April 8 2004. The incumbent president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, was re-elected with 85.0 percent of the vote.

[edit] Candidates

• Ali Benflis: candidate of the Front for National Liberation (FLN)
• Abdelaziz Bouteflika: candidate of a coalition including the Islamist Movement for the Society of Peace (MSP) and the National Rally for Democracy Assembly (RND), as well as a dissident faction of the National Liberation Front (FLN)
• Abdallah Djaballah: candidate of the Islamic El Islah Movement
• Ali Fawzi Rebaine: candidate of the Ahd 54 Party
• Louisa Hanoune: candidate of the Trotskyist Workers' Party
• Said Sadi: candidate of the secularist Rally for Culture and Democracy

[edit] Results

Enrolled voters: 18,097,255
Votes cast: 10,508,777 (58.1%)
Invalid votes: 329,075 (3.1%)
Valid votes cast: 10,179,702

e • d Summary of the 8 April 2004 Algerian presidential election results

Candidates - Nominating parties	votes	%
Abdelaziz Bouteflika - National Rally for Democracy	8,651,723	85.0
Ali Benflis - National Liberation Front	653,951	6.4
Abdallah Djaballah - Movement for National Reform	511,526	5.0
Said Sadi - Rally for Culture and Democracy	197,111	1.9
Louisa Hanoune - Workers' Party	101,630	1.0
Ali Fawzi Rebaine - Ahd 54	63,761	0.6
Total (turnout 58.1 %)	10,179,702

[edit] Comments

There were about 130 official foreign observers in Algeria for these elections, which followed more than a decade of civil conflict. Delegations of observers came from the Arab League, the African Union, the United Nations, the European Parliament and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

An OSCE spokesman said its small election monitoring team observed no obvious electoral fraud, and that the election, while not perfect, was excellent by regional standards and that it is "pretty clear" the results reflected the views of the Algerian people.

However, the Kabyle population boycotted the elections following the Arouch directives, only 10% (officially) of them went to vote.

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