Algeria heads to legislative polls amid record-low turnout fear
- Algiers, Algeria – As Algerians prepare to vote on Wednesday to elect a new parliament, the central question is not which parties will emerge strongest, but whether citizens will bother to turn out at all.
- Years after the Hirak protest movement forced a rupture in Algeria’s political order, the campaign has unfolded in an atmosphere marked less by competition than by widespread disengagement and mistrust.
- The outgoing parliament, elected in 2021, recorded a turnout of just 23 percent, the lowest in any legislative election since independence in 1962.
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- Algiers, Algeria – As Algerians prepare to vote on Wednesday to elect a new parliament, the central question is not which parties will emerge strongest, but whether citizens will bother to turn out at all.
- Years after the Hirak protest movement forced a rupture in Algeria’s political order, the campaign has unfolded in an atmosphere marked less by competition than by widespread disengagement and mistrust.
- The outgoing parliament, elected in 2021, recorded a turnout of just 23 percent, the lowest in any legislative election since independence in 1962.
Sources: Al Jazeera