Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune was re-elected for a second term with 94.65 percent of the vote, the Algerian news agency APS reported, quoted by BTA.
Out of a total of 5,630,000 registered voters for the presidential election, 5,320,000 voted for the incumbent, the head of the electoral commission, Mohamed Charfi, announced.
The military-backed Tebboune had no real opponents, as moderate Islamist Abdelali Hassani Cherif (who received 3 percent) and secularist Youssef Aouchis (with 2 percent of the vote) ran with the blessing of the influential Algerian elite, Reuters notes.
Hassani Cherif's campaign headquarters said that polling station officials were pressured to inflate the results and that vote-counting protocols were not handed over to the candidates' representatives, and that there were cases of group voting by proxy.
"This is a farce," the spokesman said Hassani Cherif's deputy, Ahmed Sadok, added that the candidate won many more votes than announced, citing the headquarters' own data from the regions.
Official figures put voter turnout at 48 percent.
Teboung's re-election means Algeria is likely to continue implementing its program of heavy social spending that resumed after he took office in 2019, thanks to higher revenues from energy exports after a period of lower oil prices.
He has promised to increase unemployment benefits, pensions and public housing programs, which he expanded during his first term as president.