Algérie : comment expliquer le score du président sortant réélu ? • RFI

Thank you for calling us from the center of Togo. You know I'm delighted when the phone works. I think it's a bit of our fault regarding the phone line. Questions about Algeria after the re-election of Abdelmajid Teboun. Yes, it's a record score. The president Abdelmajid Teboun is cheating 95%. Hello Kader Abderrahman. Abderrahim. Abderrahim, I'm sorry to have spoiled your family name. And yet you are a regular on the show. You are a lecturer at Sciences Po Paris. You are a specialist on the Maghreb. The re-election of Abdelmajid Teboun is not a surprise. However, the score obtained raises questions. And Séverin is right. He improves his score by 37 points compared to 2019. Algeria is trying to surprise us, because beyond the score, even the re-elected candidate himself contests certain practices of administration, just like the two other candidates To answer your question, we should never forget that these are official numbers. Does it correspond to reality? It's difficult to prove it or to know it. But for the moment, the government and the Algerian authorities remain on this official number. We will talk about participation in a moment. But Abderrahim, what is surprising is that the campaign teams of the three candidates, including those of President Teboun, denounce in a joint statement irregularities, contradictions in the results communicated by the election authority. This means that even in the ranks of the outgoing president, we doubt this 95%. We doubt, above all, a fraction of the administration. It's much easier than questioning the real nature of the regime. And it's without any danger, above all. And it also allows President Teboun, who has just been re-elected, to display, vis-à-vis the Algerians and Algeria's partners, the image of a man who is rigorous and who wants the truth, the reality, to be known on the numbers of participation and the final result of this presidential election. So precisely, Séverin, you have questions about participation. We are listening to you. Yes, especially that the announced participation was about 48%. What would be the legitimacy of President Teboun with such a low participation rate? So we're talking about 48%, Kader Abderrahim. It's still an incoherent figure when you look at the number of voters officially announced by the ANI, the National Election Agency. Well, yes. The frauds are more than they were. In any case, even when you want to fraud, you have to have a certain consistency and a certain rigor. And here we see that the inconsistencies suddenly emerge. But despite everything, even if the results are not changed, we must not forget that during his first term in 2019, President Teboun was elected with barely 39% official participation. So his legitimacy was already very widely established.