Sunday, May 13, 2012

Islamists losing ground in Algeria’s elections

Official results from Thursday’s legislative election showed a higher-than-expected turnout of 42 percent, with the party that has ruled Algeria since independence 50 years ago winning comfortably and Islamists losing ground.

But Algeria’s main Islamist group in the polls -- the Green Algeria alliance -- charged the polls to elect a new national assembly were fraudulent.

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