Algerian candidate Hassani Cherif's campaign says it recorded election violations


FILE PHOTO: Abdelaali Hassani Cherif, leader of the moderate Islamist Movement of the Society for Peace (MSP) and presidential candidate, gestures as he casts his vote at a polling station during the presidential election in Algiers, Algeria September 7, 2024. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina/File Photo

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian presidential candidate Abdelaali Hassani Cherif's campaign said in a statement on Sunday that it had recorded cases of violations in the country's Saturday presidential election, initial results of which have yet to be announced.

The campaign said the violations included putting pressure on some polling station officials to inflate the results, failure to deliver vote-sorting records to the candidates' representatives, and instances of proxy group voting.

Algerians voted on Saturday in an election in which military-backed President Abdulmadjid Tebboune is widely expected to win a second term.

(Reporting by Lamine Chikhi, Writing by Ahmed Elimam, Editing by Hugh Lawson)

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