{"id":264419,"date":"2019-12-13T18:16:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T21:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=264419"},"modified":"2019-12-13T19:00:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T22:00:43","slug":"former-pm-elected-president-of-algeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/former-pm-elected-president-of-algeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Former PM elected president of Algeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Algiers \u2013 Algeria&#8217;s electoral body announced on Friday (13) that former prime minister Abdelmadjid Tebboune was the winner of Thursday (12)\u2019s presidential election with 58% of the vote, according to preliminary results, Saudi newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Arab News<\/em><\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The election body said that 40% of Algerians took part in the election, which means a turnout of 9 million voters. The election occurred amid manifestations against it. Demonstrators claim that all candidates were part of the ruling elite and demand that they cede power to a new generation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_264412\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-264412\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/043_dpa-pa_191213-90-035901_dpai.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-264412 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/043_dpa-pa_191213-90-035901_dpai-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/043_dpa-pa_191213-90-035901_dpai-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/043_dpa-pa_191213-90-035901_dpai-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/043_dpa-pa_191213-90-035901_dpai.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-264412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Algiers demonstrators protest against the election<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A popular uprising in April led to the resignation of president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who had been in power for 20 years. Tebboune was prime minister under Bouteflika. All five candidates were former senior officials or former members of the ruling party\u2019s central committee.<\/p>\n<p>Tebboune ran as an independent candidate. Algerian official news agency <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aps.dz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>APS<\/em><\/a> reported that he was born in November 17, 1945, in M\u00e9cheria, N\u00e2ama, over 600 km Southwest from Algiers.<\/p>\n<p>The politician graduated from the National School of Administration and specialized in economy and finances and before becoming PM in May 2017, he had been minister of Culture, Local Government, Housing and Urban Planning and acting minister of Commerce. Before that, he held positions in different provincial administrations.<\/p>\n<p>During the campaign, he promised to implement a new development policy marked by a \u201cnew economic model based on diversifying growth and the knowledge economy,\u201d <em>APS <\/em>reported. Most of Algeria\u2019s revenue comes from the oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n<p>In his first declaration as elected president, Tebboune said that the election represents an \u201copportunity to implement a new Republic, whose pillars are the youth,\u201d <em>APS <\/em>reported. He also promised to \u201cget this new Republic ridden of corrupts and corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-264410\">Farouk Batiche\/DPA\/AFP<\/div>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-264412\">Farouk Batiche\/DPA\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abdelmadjid Tebboune was declared the winner with 58% of the vote. Amid protests against the election, turnout was 40%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":264410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3066],"tags":[13076,13078,13079,2034,10200,9054,7320,12134],"class_list":{"0":"post-264419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-society","8":"tag-abdelaziz-bouteflika","9":"tag-abdelaziz-bouteflika-en","10":"tag-abdelmadjid-tebboune-en","11":"tag-algeria","12":"tag-democracy","13":"tag-election","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-protests"},"wps_subtitle":"Abdelmadjid Tebboune was declared the winner with 58% of the vote. 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