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00:00It was, as expected, a runaway victory.
00:03The Algerian President Abdel Majid Tebboun far outpaced his two challengers.
00:09Algeria's electoral authority said nearly 19 out of 20 voters chose him.
00:17First, the independent candidate, Tebboun Abdel Majid, 5,329,253 votes,
00:27representing 94.65%.
00:36The electoral authority said that the candidate in second place was Islamist
00:40Abdelali Hassani Sharif with 3.17%.
00:44His party decried irregularities, saying there had been a failure to deliver
00:48vote-sorting records to the candidate's representatives.
00:51It said it had recorded instances of proxy group voting.
00:55Aside, alleged irregularities focus has been on what is a low turnout,
01:00lower than the 40% seen when Tebboun was first elected in 2019.
01:24Amnesty International said in the days up to the election that Algerian authorities
01:43were continuing to stifle civic space by maintaining a severe repression of human rights.
01:48It said that five years after the Hirak protest movement, Algeria has seen new
01:53arbitrary arrests while authorities maintain a zero-tolerance approach to dissenting opinions.