Abdel Aziz Bouteflika a president-elect for Algeria

The Algerian foreign ministers Abd El-Malek Salal said yesterday that Abdel Aziz Bouteflika, 62, won the presidential elections in Algeria after obtaining 73,69% of the votes reaching 7.5 million voters out of 10 million.

He said during a press conference yesterday that elections took place in "freedom" and he expressed sorrow for the behavior of some candidates whom he said had premeditated the administration's involvement in their elections strategy.

Some electors voted for the other 6 candidates inspite of their withdrawal from the election process where Ahmed Taleb El-Brahim obtained 12,53% of the votes, Abu Allah Gab Allah obtained 3,95%, Hussein Ayat Ahmed obtained 31,17%, Mawloud Hamroush obtained 3%, Mekddad Seifi obtained 2,24% and Yousef El Khateeb obtained (1,22%).

Following declaring Bouteflika's win, he said that he "agree on assuming the Algerian presidentship because he conditioned his consent previously on the necessity of obtaining a great percentage in the vote."

The elected president assured his commitment to be a president for all the Algerians fairly away from any alignment to achieve the reconciliation as well as reunioning the Algerians.