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Algeria: be careful what you wish for

On 12 June 2021 Algerians turned out to vote in the country’s latest legislative elections, which had been called a year early after a constitutional referendum in mid-November 2020 and a presidential election eleven months before. In reality, however, few of them actually did take part, as the elections for 407 seats in the National Assembly – the lower house in Algeria’s bicameral system – saw the lowest turnout ever recorded in a national election in the country. Only 23.09 per cent of the 24.454 million registered voters bothered to take part and a fifth of them had spoilt their ballots in protest! (Algérie Presse Service 2021). Even the constitution referendum seven months before had managed a marginally better turnout at 23.14 per cent of registered voters, with 66.80 per cent of them approving the proposed amendments. By those standards, President Abdelmajid Tebboune had received what would have been considered a resounding endorsement at his own presidential election on 12 December 2019, with 58.13 per cent of votes actually cast on a turnout of 39.88 per cent. Even the two previous legislative elections – in 2012 and 2017 – had persuaded 43 per cent and 35 per cent of the registered vote respectively to take part (Direct Democracy 2020).