Elections in 

Algeria
Algeria elected at the national level the head of state - the president - and the legislature. The people elect
the presidentevery four years. Algerian People's National Assembly has
its 380members, elected every five years in the community is composedof several seats by proportional
representation. There are 17 members of the National Assembly, are elected by the 96 membercouncils and
48 local member to be appointed by the President.
In Algeria, there multi-party system, where there are many political party | political parties is usually not unique
to one party in power,political party | political parties should work together to make up a coalition
government. Accordingly, the Organization for Securityand Cooperation significantly in Europe, the
Algerian elections arefree and fair elections.
Until November 12, 2008, presidents have two terms, in this historywas the introduction of amendments to the
Constitution abolished the time limitation [1].

Algerian presidential election system

The head of state in Algeria elected president by popular vote for five years. Has been the ratification of the Basic
Law on the system of elections the head of state under President Liamine Zeroual on March 6, 1997. The Law
combines the doors of the five provisions on the election of President in addition to the provisions of the election
of members of municipal councils, state and members of the People. And confine ourselves to respect the
provisions of the election of President and reasoning. [2]
Who is the voter
All Algeria or Algeria at the age of eighteen years on the day of voting and was enjoying his civil and political
rights, and there is no one in cases of loss of eligibility set out in the legislation in force, the condition that voters
be registered in the voters list of the municipality in which the home.
Electoral list
Join in the electoral roll is compulsory and are reviewed starting from the first [October] of each year in each
municipality under the supervision of an administrative committee consisting of a judge, a president, two
members are the President of the Municipal People's Council and a representative of the governor. And can be
resident in Algeria and the Registrar to the overseas diplomatic and consular missions of Algeria to request the
registration. If the voter is registered in the electoral list his home, he had to request, within three months of this
change pro removal of his name from this list and it is registered in the municipality of his new residence.
Not recorded in the electoral list of the rule of a felony or sentenced to imprisonment or behaved during the
revolution counter to the editorial interests of the country.
Voter's card
The management of the state voter's card which is valid for all electoral processes, and recognizes all registered
voters in the electoral list. And determined by the organization how to set up a voter's card, delivery, expired.
Conditions for the Nomination
A candidate for the presidency of the request shows the name, title, signature, occupation and address, to be
accompanied with the demand for a number of documents including: birth certificate, certificate of Algerian
nationality of origin, and the sworn statement lack of progress on the other nationality, and a certificate of Algerian
nationality of the husband in question, and a statement on his property and real estate at home and abroad, and a
certificate attesting to participation in the revolution of the first in November 1954 for the newborn before the first
of July 1942, and evidence of non-involvement of parents of the candidate born after the first in July 1942 in the
work of anti-revolution in November 1954.
The candidate must submit:
Either a list containing the signature of at least 600 elected members of municipal councils or within the
jurisdictional or parliamentary and distributed across 25 states at least.
Either a list of 75 thousand individual sign at least for voters registered in the list, and must be collected across
the 25 states at least.
Withdrawal of candidate
Does not accept the withdrawal of the candidate after the filing of nominations except in the case of the death or
legal incapacity occurs. In the case of the death of a candidate or of a legal impediment to him after the
publication of the list of candidates in the Official Gazette is to postpone the ballot date for a maximum of 15 days.
In case of death or withdrawal or a mind for any of the candidates Monday in the second round, the Constitutional
Council of the need for a new total of electoral processes.
In this case, the Constitutional Council extends term organize new elections for a maximum of 60 days.
Date of Election of the President and the role the ballot
Presidential elections take place within thirty days prior to the expiration of term of office. And call of the
electorate under a presidential decree within 60 days before the date of the ballot.President of the Republic shall
be elected by universal suffrage in the floors by an absolute majority of votes cast. If there has been no candidate
obtains an absolute majority of votes expressed in the first round, regulates the role of a second. Constitutional
Council declares the results of the first round shall be appointed at the appropriate candidates Monday invited to
participate in the second round. And determine the date of the second round of balloting the fifteenth day after the
announcement of the Constitutional Council the results of the first round, that does not exceed the maximum
period between the first and second floors 30 days.

Ballot
Voting shall be conducted in the offices of the vote within the electoral district, which usually consists of halves of
a municipality or a municipality or several municipalities of the divisions established by law. And distribute a
voters decision to vote on the offices of governor in each constituency. And oversees the Office of the vote for
each committee composed of president and vice president, writer, and assistants.

The result of these members right reads: I swear by God Almighty to do my duties faithfully, impartially and
pledge to see to ensure the integrity of the electoral process.

Candidates can appoint a representative for them in each voting station. Polling began at eight in the morning and
concludes on the same day at seven in the evening. The governors can provide or delay its opening or closing of
the voters in order to facilitate the exercise of their right to vote.

Vote
The vote is personal and confidential, and being by the ballot paper being placed in envelopes after the selected
non-transparent and non-Mdmgp and model one. The Office of the vote each copy of the list of registered voters
in his possession certified by the Administrative Committee by the President include in particular the names, titles,
addresses, as well as the ordinal number given to each voter. And provides each office and vote in isolation of
one or several enclaves inside the voter selects his candidate of choice.

Proxy voting
Who could be sick in hospitals and / or who are being treated in their homes, and people with great disrepair or
infirm, and workers who operate outside the jurisdiction of residence and / or who are on the move or Almlasmon
their places of work on polling day and citizens who are present temporarily abroad to vote by proxy. The law
defines a formula the Agency and the ways to edit.

Vote for the military and living abroad

Practicing members of the National People's Army and security wire their right to vote, directly or through the
Agency, and their ballot shall be subject to the procedures and rules applicable to mobile polling
stations. Exercised voters living abroad the right to vote in diplomatic and consular missions in their countries of
residence Algeria.

Screening
Screening is being openly and are in the Office of the vote. And appoint the members of the Office of the vote
Farzin two of the registered voters in this office. And placed in each of the record of the outcome of the vote
count, and editor written in indelible ink and includes, where appropriate comments and / or reservations about
the candidates or their representatives. The Minutes of the sort in the list signed by two members of the Office of
the vote.
The papers are invalid during counting:
Abstract of the paper envelope or paper without the envelope.
Several papers in one circumstance.
Envelope and the paper carry any note or mutilated or torn papers.
Papers written off in whole or in part, only when required by this method of ballot format and the exact border as
per the procedures laid down.
Paper envelopes or irregular.
The Electoral Commission and the municipal census results collected at the municipal level and recorded in the
record editor in one of three copies are sent immediately to the state electoral commission, in the presence of
representatives of candidates. It costs the state to collect the results of the municipal jurisdiction of the general
statistics of votes, and preview the results of the election of the President of the Republic. We must finish its work
the day after the polling statistics to the public voices and preview the results of the election of the President of
the Republic. Records and send in special circumstances sealed to the Constitutional Council immediately.
Results
The Constitutional Council declares the final results of presidential elections in a maximum period of ten days
from the date of receipt of the records points highlighted state electoral commissions.

Campaign
The election campaign shall open for a period of 21 days before the ballot, and ends two days before the date of
the ballot. If the role was a second ballot, the election campaign by the candidates for the second round open for
12 days before the vote and ending two days before the polling date.
Prohibitions of the campaign
Prevents the use of foreign languages in the election campaign, it also prevents the use of any method of
advertising business for the purpose of election propaganda.
Prevents the use of property or the means of the legal person or public or private institutions or public bodies only
if the legislative provisions expressly provided otherwise. And prevents the use of places of worship and
education institutions for the purposes of electoral propaganda.
Campaign and the media
Give each candidate a fair room in the media, television and radio.

Financial provisions
State bears the costs of printing ballots and expenses resulting from the organization of elections with the
exception of the election campaign.
Election campaigns are financed by resources released for:
Contribution to political parties.
Possible assistance from the State made on the basis of equity.
Income of the candidate.
Prohibited for any candidate to accept donations in cash or kind from any foreign state or any natural or legal
person of foreign nationality.
Can not exceed the expenses of the candidate's campaign for the presidential elections 15 million dinars in the
first round, and raise this amount to 20 million dinars in the second round.
Should be on each candidate to prepare a detection calculates the campaign includes the total revenue obtained
and expenditures that are made, and depending on the source and nature, and recognizes the disclosure
provided by the expert accountant or chartered accountant to the Constitutional Council. Publish a statement of
account elected president in the Official Gazette of the Democratic People's Republic of Algeria.