Today,4/17/2014, Algeria had their Presidential elections. I was talking to my neighbor who is from Algeria. She told me that no one in Algeria cares about the election because everyone knows that the incumbent president will win again. Then I heard a story on NPR discussing the elections and they conveyed the same sentiment that my neighbor had. They talked about how there is a lack of support for the elections since President Abdelaziz Bouteflika rewrote the part of their constitution limiting the number of terms the President can serve from 2, 5 year terms, to an unlimited amount of 5 year terms. So today President Abdelaziz Bouteflika won his reelection for his fourth term. The BBC also has a good story covering the Election, why President Bouteflika is popular, and why many were calling for a boycott of the election.
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika