The final results of the elections to renew the members of the first chamber of the Algerian parliament maintained the arrangement of political forces that emerged from the provisional results, with the introduction of amendments that affected a number of seats after the resolution of appeals and the cancellation of votes in some polling stations, so that the presidential majority maintains a comfortable majority within the new council.
The head of the Constitutional Court, Leila Aslaoui, announced on Saturday that the court had completed its review of all appeals related to the vote held on July 2nd, and had based the final results on the municipal tally and counting records, as well as the judicial decisions issued regarding the appeals. She emphasized that the court also exercised its powers of automatic correction after discovering irregularities that affected the validity of the results in a number of polling stations.
The court revealed that it received a total of 320 appeals, including 13 from members of the national community residing abroad. After reviewing the files, 43 appeals were accepted, while 269 were rejected for lack of merit, and a number of others were dismissed for procedural reasons.
The final revisions included a number of states, including Algiers, Chlef, Bouira, Djelfa, Mila, Oran, Barika and Ain Oussera, where the results were recalculated after votes were cancelled or reports were corrected that showed significant irregularities.
Algiers was the most prominent province that witnessed changes, after the court canceled the votes of the Future Front list in 57 polling stations distributed across several electoral centers. It also canceled the votes of the same list in a number of polling stations in the province of Bouira, in addition to canceling the votes of lists and candidates in other municipalities due to violations that were considered to affect the integrity of the electoral process, which directly affected the distribution of some parliamentary seats.
The final results showed that the National Liberation Front party retained first place with 91 seats, after it had obtained 90 seats in the provisional results, adding a new seat after the appeals were decided.
The National Democratic Rally also strengthened its position in second place with 74 seats, compared to 73 seats in the provisional results, while the Future Front declined from 59 seats to 56 seats, making it the only party among the major forces that lost three seats after the results were reviewed.
In contrast, the Movement of Society for Peace (an opposition force in the previous parliament) maintained its tally of 43 seats unchanged, while the representation of the National Construction Movement increased from 38 to 40 seats, and the tally of the independent lists increased from 32 to 33 seats, while the People's Voice Party declined from 17 to 16 seats.
The final results also showed that the Socialist Forces Front won 12 seats, the Rally for Culture and Democracy won 4 seats, the Workers' Party won 3 seats, while the Renaissance Movement won one seat. These are parties with an oppositional and critical orientation towards the authorities.
The New Dawn Party also won 6 seats, the Freedom and Justice Party won 6 seats, the Dignity Party won 5 seats, and the Justice and Development Front won 4 seats, in addition to a number of other parties that each won one seat.
Regarding the participation rates, the Constitutional Court confirmed that the national voting rate remained at 21.24 percent, which is the same rate announced by the Independent National Electoral Authority in the provisional results. However, the detailed figures saw slight adjustments after the review of the lists and appeals.
According to the final results, the number of registered voters within the country was 23,812,176, while the number of those who voted was 5,171,200.
As for the national community residing abroad, the final results recorded a participation of 10.75 percent, after the number of registered voters reached 854,088, and the number of voters reached 99,810, while the number of votes cast reached 97,188.
The Constitutional Court also presented data on the composition of the new parliament. The number of elected members under the age of forty reached 126, representing 30.96 percent of the total membership, while women won 25 seats, or 6.14 percent. Statistics showed that 312 of the elected members hold university degrees, equivalent to 76.55 percent of the total members of the lower house of
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