Algerian Interior Minister Noureddine Bedoui announces the preliminary results of the local elections in Algiers, Algeria, on Nov. 24, 2017. The Algerian ruling party of the National Liberation Front (FLN) has won the double ballot of the re-election of representatives at the municipal (APC) and prefect (APW) assemblies, according to preliminary results announced by Interior Minister Noureddine Bedoui on Friday. (Xinhua)
ALGIERS, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- The Algerian ruling party of the National Liberation Front (FLN) has won the double ballot of the re-election of representatives at the municipal (APC) and prefect (APW) assemblies, according to preliminary results announced by Interior Minister Nouredine Bedoui on Friday.
FLN snatched the top position by winning a majority in 603 APCs, or 30.56 percent of the existing 1,451 municipalities nationwide, and won 711 seats at prefect assemblies, the equivalent of 35.48 percent of the exiting 48 APWs nationwide, Bedoui told a press conference.
The second ruling party, the National Democratic Rally (RND), came second in the polls, as it collected majority in 451 municipal assemblies, or 26.21 percent of the total seats.
The RND won 527 seats at prefect assemblies, which accounts for 26 percent of the total seats.
The two ruling parties thus managed to grab majority in both municipal and prefect assemblies. The newly established Mustaqbal Front party (Future Front) won a majority in 71 APCs.
The leftist party of the Socialist Forces Front (FFS) won a majority in 64 APCs, while the Algerian Popular Movement (MPA) grabbed a majority in 62 municipalities.
However, the Islamist Movement for Society of Peace (MSP), the third largest party at parliament, fell to the fifth place in the municipalities with only 49 APCs, or 4.92 percent.
But the MSP maintained its strong presence at prefect assemblies by winning the third place with 152 seats, which constitutes 7.58 percent of the total seats.
According to Bedoui, the voter turnout hit 46.93 percent at municipal assemblies poll, and 44.96 percent at prefect assemblies poll.
Some 22.8 million people are eligible to vote, while 10.5 million cast their vote at APCs polls, and 10.1 million participated in APWs polls, according to official figures.
These polls are the sixth of their kind since Algeria adopted the multi-party system in 1989.
As many as 165,000 candidates run for APC elections, while 16,000 candidates scramble for seats at the 48 prefect assemblies nationwide.
