Butaflika to gain second term of office
Algeria, Politics, 4/9/2004

As results of official elections today for the Presidential elections in Algerian which most expectedly ensure that Abdul Aziz Butaflika will assume a new term of office, the tone of opposition will also expected to sharply increase deploring the interference of the authority and the falsification operations and then Algeria will resume its normal life and pictures of the 6 candidates will disappear gradually after they would have occupied the country for 19 days during their election campaign.

As soon as the election day started, the ministry of the interior announced that voting rate ranged between 20- 30 percent at 9 a.m. and the rate increased to more than 46% at the midday in several area like "Teyart" and others and had reached its peak in the evening, in an atmophere of security in contrary to the state of concern and fears used to control the country during the previous elections.

In a later time, the Algerian ministry of the interior announced that the rate of final participation reached 57,78%. If results confirmed today the news on Butaflika's winning in the first session, the President whose term of office will expire today would have survived the test of the grave second term of office and become the 8th President for Algeria after independence and the third elected President under multipluralims, while the first Persidents like Ahmad Bin Bella, Huwari Bumedian and al-Chazli Ben Jedid ( who was elected for three successive times) used to get voting rates ranging between 88 and 99%.

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