Algeria’s FLN wins most seats in polls: Final results
Ruling party and coalition partner clinch lion’s share of seats in Algeria’s national assembly
Voters cast their ballot at a polling station to elect members of the country’s 462-seat parliament in Algiers, Algeria on May 4, 2017.
By Abdel Razek Abdallah
ALGIERS
Algeria’s ruling National Liberation Front (FLN) won the most seats -- 164 out of 462 -- in yesterday’s parliamentary polls, according to official results released Friday.
At a press conference in capital Algiers, Interior Minister Noureddine
Thursday’s elections, the minister said, had seen a turnout of 38.25 percent -- a marked decrease on 2012 polls in which 43 percent of the country’s registered voters cast ballots.
In the 2012 election, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s ruling FLN won almost half of the seats in the assembly (220), while the National Rally came in second (68 seats) and the Green Alliance -- a coalition of three Islamic parties -- came in third (48 seats).
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