Former Prime Minister Abdelmadjid Tebboune has been declared winner of Algeria’s presidential election without the need for a second-round runoff, the electoral commission said on Friday.
Tebboune, 74, took 58.15 percent of the votes, trouncing his four fellow contenders, commission chairman Mohamed Charfi announced.
Like him, they all served under the two-decade rule of Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who resigned in the face of mass protests in April.
(AFP)
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Implementation of the Finance Act will result in more tax burden on the elite, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has said. FIRS said in a statement on Saturday that Nigeria was on the threshold of a new, transparent, accountable and fair tax regime in which those making more from the system would pay a […]
The Federal Government has declared that kidnapping and banditry in some states of the federation were not federal offences. It was also a day the Federal Government slammed the leading opposition party in the country, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for playing cheap politics with its Monday comments on insecurity in the country. Government spoke through […]
