Algeria: Participation rate in elections reached 15.58%

Algeria’s Interior Minister Nour Al Din Badawy revealed that the participation rate in the parliamentary elections held on Thursday reached 15.58 percent, calling the citizens for participating in the current elections which enjoy great importance. He stressed, “The current elections come to respond to those people who raise skepticism over the unity of Algerian people.”
The highest participation rate was recorded in the southern governorates of Algeria, where the participation rate in the province of Tindouf reached 32.07 per cent at 1 pm, while in the southern province of Elysee, on the border with Libya, was 28.61 percent, followed by Tasselt by 27 per cent. However, the lowest percentage was recorded in the province of Bejaia of the Kabylie region in the eastern area of the country, where the participation rate in the current parliamentary elections was 8.24 percent.
In the same context, a number of poll stations witnessed clashes between the representatives of different political parties, as Algerian governorate of Al Wadi witnessed increasing violation in coincidence with the Algerian parliamentary elections witnessed currently in the country, as the activists of Peace Community movement, related to Muslim Brotherhood, have been violently attacked by a number of young people loyal to the Algerian ruling party.
The attack led to the injury of a number of the movement’s members who have been transferred to the hospitals to receive treatment. The attack took place when members of Peace Community Movement were receiving election observation cards from the municipality of Rabah in the province of Al Wadi. After the attack, the movement’s activists organized a mass protest demanding the Algerian authorities, security forces and Independent High Electoral Commission to interfere and take serious decision against the violators.
The violation came hours after the threat launched by the ruling party’s candidate of Al Wadi governorate against the activists of Peace Community movement. He appeared in video while he was threatening his competitors and their supporters of death.