Algeria's president seeks a second term in the gas-rich North African country's election this weekend. But prospective voters say they are more concerned about inflation’s effects on the spiking prices of school supplies, potatoes and coffee.
Algeria n president and candidate for re-election Abdelmajid Tebboune delivers a speech as part of his campaign for the upcoming presidential election, in Djanet, Algeria , Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. Algeria n president and candidate for re-election Abdelmajid Tebboune delivers a speech as part of his campaign for the upcoming presidential election, in Djanet, Algeria , Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024.
The malaise is a far cry from the hopes of April 2019, when pro-democracy activists with the Hirak movement called for broad, structural changes to Algeria’s military-dominated political system after then-octogenarian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika Activists in 2019 criticized authorities for hurriedly scheduling those elections that led to Tebboune, an establishment candidate seen as close to Algeria’s military, taking power.
Karim Tabbou, a leading figure in the Hirak movement who had been under judicial supervision for two years, was taken by police in an incident his wife called an “abduction.” They told him he was “forbidden to take part in any adversarial debate or to express his views on the elections or the political situation in general,” his lawyer said.
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