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	Algerian presidential election, 2004 - TheBestLinks.com - April 8, European Parliament, United Nations, Socialist, ...
		Algerian presidential election, 2004, Algeria, April 8, European Parliament...
		Presidential elections were held in Algeria on April 8, 2004.
		An OSCE spokesman said its small monitoring team observed no obvious fraud, and that the election, while not perfect, was excellent by regional standards and that it is "pretty clear" the results reflected the views of the Algerian people.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Algerian_presidential_election__2C___2004.html (256 words)

	Algerian presidential election, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Presidential elections were held in Algeria on April 8, 2004.
		The incumbent president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, was re-elected with 85.0 percent of the vote.
		An OSCE spokesman said its small monitoring team observed no obvious fraud, and that the election, while not perfect, was excellent by regional standards and that it is "pretty clear" the results reflected the views of the Algerian people.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Algerian_presidential_election,_2004 (272 words)

	Middle East Report Online: An Algerian Presidential Free-for-All, by Youce Bouandel
		In previous elections, the results were known long before polling day, and Algerian voters, in effect, only rubber-stamped decisions made behind the scenes by the powerful army.
		The 2004 election will be held not only as the state of emergency persists, but against a backdrop of broader mistrust in state institutions.
		Presidential candidates have applauded this policy, and at least a sizable percentage of the population appears to believe it is genuine.
	www.merip.org /mero/mero040604.html (2832 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Region \| Power corrupts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ten candidates for the coming April presidential elections in Algeria have formed a front demanding guarantees of a fair vote.
		The front seeks to avoid the scenario of the 1999 presidential elections when six candidates pulled out at the 11th hour after accusing the army of supporting Abdel-Aziz Bouteflika, who later won the vote.
		It went further by indirectly accusing the president of jeopardising the stability of the Algerian state "through exploiting public institutions", and compromising "the neutrality of military institutions".
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/673/re8.htm (800 words)

	Algeria
		During the April elections, the Armed Forces Chief of Staff ordered all members of the military to maintain strict political neutrality, and a law was passed ending military/security force voting in their barracks, a practice that was thought to have been a source of voting irregularities in previous elections.
		Presidential candidates received equal amounts of time on the state-owned radio and television channels during the 3-week official campaign season prior to the April elections.
		An election observer from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe stated in a press conference that the election was generally free and fair, though not without flaws.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41718.htm (12272 words)

	Middle East Institute: Policy Brief
		But we should be hesitant before casting these elections aside as merely another exercise in political futility because, regardless of the outcome, Algeria’s third successive multi-party presidential campaign was among the freest and most competitive ever held in the Arab world.
		The campaign also looked more like the 2004 elections in the US - complete with rallies, televised debates (albeit, late in the game for the opposition candidates), and candidates accusing each other of fraud and misrepresentation – than the typical perfunctory, predictable march to the ballots in most Arab elections.
		Six candidates ran in these elections representing a diverse set of political perspectives – and, most importantly, they all had enough faith in the process, sticking it out to the bitter end (as opposed to the 1999 elections where candidates pulled out at the 11th hour amidst accusations of corruption and fraud).
	www.mideasti.org /articles/doc188.html (1117 words)

	Algerian president wins re-election in landslide as rival cries foul
		Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been re-elected in a landslide with 83.49 percent of the vote against his five challengers, Interior Minister Yazid Zerhouni announced Friday.
		Giving the official results from Thursday's presidential poll in the north African country, the minister told a packed press conference that Ali Benflis, Bouteflika's former right-hand man who was seen as his top challenger, garnered 7.93 percent.
		The election marked a series of democratic firsts here, notably that the military, the traditional powerbroker in Algerian politics, pledged neutrality this time, and that candidates' representatives were given vote tallies at the polling stations.
	www.terradaily.com /2004/040409112455.lm2xo7in.html (586 words)

	UNDP-POGAR: Country Index: Elections
		The most recent presidential election, in which Abdelaziz Bouteflika was re-elected, took place in April 2004.
		Signaling his own commitment to transparent elections, President Zeroual in April of 1999 announced the creation of the National Independent Commission for the Supervision of the Presidential Election (CNISEP).
		No elections were conducted in most of the municipalities in the area during the local elections of October 2002, while some municipal councils had been elected by less than 1% of eligible voters.
	www.pogar.org /countries/elections.asp?cid=1 (1135 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| REGION \| Season of promises (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Algerian President Abdul-Aziz Bouteflika announced on Saturday he will stand for a second term aimed at "restoring civic peace and advancing national reconciliation", getting Algeria "back to work", and bringing it "back to its position in the international arena".
		The FIS won the 1992 legislative elections that the army subsequently cancelled.
		In the upcoming elections, "we will be following events closely in the hope that we can fully realise all the opportunities for expanded bilateral cooperation," he told reporters.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/679/re3.htm (922 words)

	Middle East Online
		Algerian presidential hopefuls campaign 'American-style' ahead of April vote in north African country.
		Algeria was gearing up Tuesday for its third multi-party presidential election, due April 8, and observers say that for the first time in the north African country, a candidate's campaign will weigh heavily on his or her eventual success.
		The upcoming elections are the third multi-party vote in the country since the one-time sole party, the National Liberation Front (FLN), in 1989 opened the way to multi-party elections after ruling Algeria with an iron fist from independence in 1962.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english/?id=9362 (606 words)

	Presidential sElection 2004
		Unfortunately, in 2004, Nader is not addressing the deeper ways that the election is being tampered with, and is not speaking directly to the overwhelming fears that much of the country has about another term for Baby Bush.
		In 1964, the election was tampered with by the coup in Dallas (11/22/1963).
		In 1968, the election was tampered with by the killings of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, and by Nixon's sabotage of the Vietnam peace negotiations.
	www.oilempire.us /2004.html (6030 words)

	The Epoch Times :: Bouteflika Sweeps Algerian Election
		ALGIERS - Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has swept the country's presidential election, capturing nearly 84 percent of the vote, according to results announced by the interior minister Friday.
		But many voters were surprised by the president's high return, which is roughly 10 percentage points higher than in the 1999 elections, when all the opposition candidates withdrew from the race to protest alleged rigging.
		The interior minister says thousands of election observers, representing all the presidential candidates, had manned the polling stations, and more than 100 foreign observers also monitored the polls.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/4-4-9/20885.html (318 words)

	PEN American Center - Mohammed Benchicou
		On August 23, 2003, Benchicou was apprehended by the police at Algiers airport on his return from France and charged with currency control violations in a move widely understood to be an attempt to silence Le Matin in the run-up to the 2004 Algerian presidential election.
		Benchicou’s arrest was reportedly ordered by the Algerian Interior Minister Yazid Zerhouni, who Le Matin had accused in a 2003 article of involvement in torturing prisoners in the 1970s during his service as a military security commander.
		On June 14, 2004, Benchicou was sentenced to a two-year prison term and received a fine of 20m dinars (approx.
	www.pen.org /page.php/prmID/1324 (418 words)

	CNN.com - Algeria awaits poll results - Apr 8, 2004
		Presidential hopefuls wrap up campaigning in the hotly contested race.
		He has said that Thursday's elections would be a turning point for the country's fledgling democracy.
		Since taking office in 1999, the Algerian president has won U.S. support for his efforts to fight terrorism and even boasted that terrorism is no longer a threat in his country.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/africa/04/08/algeria.elex/index.html (515 words)

	Dominion Weblog: Algerian Election Declared Fair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Bouteflika was expected to win the presidential election, his eight and a half million-vote lead was a far more commanding victory than anyone had predicted.
		The Algerian elections were monitored by over 120 foreign observers, including members from the Arab League, the African Union, the EU, OSCE, and the UN.
		Europe was particularly interested in seeing an election win by Bouteflika, who’s stabilizing reforms have reduced refugees to the continent and contented the large Algerian population in France, as well as aided conditions for Europe’s continued economic expansion into north Africa.
	dominionpaper.ca /weblog/2004/05/algerian_election_declared_fair.html (386 words)

	The Epoch Times :: Algeria Holds Presidential Elections
		ALGIERS - Algerians go to the polls Thursday in what observers hope may be groundbreaking presidential elections for the North African country.
		Despite the government's vows of a fair election, several opposition candidates warn the vote may be marred by fraud.
		Many also fear there may be violence in the Algerian province of Kabylia, where some local politicians have called on voters to boycott the elections.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/4-4-8/20879.html (380 words)

	Algeria: Angus Reid Consultants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Algerian government is also involved in talks with the Berber minority, which makes up 20 per cent of the countryâs 31 million inhabitants.
		On Mar. 21, electoral commission head Said Bouchair confirmed the presence of 64 election monitors from the Arab League, 50 from the African Union, five from the European Parliament, four from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and one from the UN.
		Benflis deemed the election "a parody" and vowed to take legal action after alleging irregularities in "thousands of polling stations." Election observer Bruce George of the OSCE called the ballot "one of the best conducted elections, not just in Algeria, but in Africa and much of the Arab world."
	www.angus-reid.com /tracker/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewItem&itemID=1742 (862 words)

	Arabic News Weekly Edition for Algeria, 3/15/2004
		The elections are to be on April 8 amid heated debate among candidates to win the voters and convince them of their elections programs through people's aggregations and media interventions.
		The Algerian prime minister Ahmad Yahya, chairman of the preliminary committee for the Presidential elections said that some 18 persons, are eligible to election on April 8, warning that the Algerian authorities will not permit threatening stability and security during the election process.
		The candidates for Presidential elections in Algeria Ali Benflis, presented to the International center for the press yesterday the outline for his election program which was under the titled "a renewed national project," including 100 commitments he had vowed to implement if he wins against the current President Abdul Aziz Butaflika.
	www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Weekly/Algeria/20040315.html (250 words)

	A short history of Algeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		When a victory of the fundamentalist Front Islamicque du Salut (Islamic Salvation Front, FIS) seems to be imminent, the second round of these elections are cancelled and Algeria becomes a military dictatorship with initially Mohamed Boudiaf and after his assassination Liameine Zéroual as president.
		The presidential elections of 1999 are won by Abdelaziz Bouteflika of the FLN, following a campaign in which seven candidates qualify for election.
		Bouteflika is re-elected in 2004 as a candidate of the RND and the MSP.
	www.electionworld.org /history/algeria.htm (571 words)

	Algiers - news and current events.
		As Algerian voters Tuesday pondered their choice for president in what promises to be the country's most democratic election ever, fears lay...
		Three candidates in Algeria's election have issued a warning against what they say is a plan...
		The Algerian presidential election will be held on Thursday, April 8 with seri...
	archive.wn.com /2004/04/07/1400/algiers (455 words)

	April 2004 Military News
		U-S-SUDAN-DARFUR VOA 09 Apr 2004 -- The United States is welcoming the cease-fire agreement in the Darfur region in western Sudan and urging the parties to the conflict there to implement the truce immediately.
		U.S. 09 Apr 2004 -- A U.S. decision to deploy six B-52 bombers on Guam is mainly aimed at coping with the North Korean situation, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Michael Ying-mao Kau said Friday.
		U-S-Algerian Election VOA 09 Apr 2004 -- The United States said Friday it had no evidence to question the credibility of Thursday's Algerian election, won by an overwhelming margin by incumbent President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2004/04/04-09_index.htm (1085 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Algeria, overcoming many ills, moves on slow track toward democracy
		In a first, the army declared neutrality in the election, appearing to leave the politics to politicians.
		The result, said fellow presidential hopeful Said Sadi, a free-market advocate from the restive Kabylie region, "is a bad sign.
		One chance at a multiparty election evaporated on the eve of the 1999 presidential contest, when six opponents of Bouteflika quit the race amid claims of pending fraud.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20040410-1005-algeriandemocracy.html (824 words)

	USATODAY.com - U.S. envoy urges fair Algerian presidential election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — A senior U.S. diplomat on Sunday urged Algeria to hold free and fair presidential elections in April, hinting that U.S.-Algerian relations were at stake.
		Lorne Craner, U.S. assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor, ending a three-day visit, said he received assurances the election itself would be conducted fairly, but had concerns about the run-up to the vote.
		The rebellion erupted after the army canceled legislative elections that an Islamic party was set to win.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-01-25-algeria-elections_x.htm (437 words)

	Tunisian Politics - North Africa Journal
		This election is nothing but a formality that doesn’t offer a chance to anyone and so it does not represent any particular interest for the Tunisians.
		An election is a sacred act that symbolizes first, the recognition of the Republic and second, the practice of democracy.
		To boycott elections is to boycott the foundations of the Republic and to leave an open road to all kinds of opportunists to take advantage of the situation.
	www.north-africa.com /tunisiaelections04.htm (2661 words)

	mostly AFRICA: 04/01/2004 - 04/30/2004
		The day before the election, Bouteflika's three main challengers, including Benflis, had issued a statement saying that they projected a second-round runoff vote would be necessary.
		Algerians are set to elect their president today.
		On September 16, 1999, Algerians endorsed Bouteflika's "Civilian Concord" in a referendum approved by 98.6 percent of voters.
	mostlyafrica.blogspot.com /2004_04_01_mostlyafrica_archive.html (10256 words)

	Middle East Online
		"This election could open up a democratic alternative that is at their height of the aspirations and sacrifices of our people," Said Sadi declared after his party backed his candidacy.
		The Berbers, who make up at least one-fifth of the country's population of 31 million, are bitter over economic and cultural marginalisation and angry over perceived official corruption in the north African country.
		Bouteflika won the 1999 presidential election after the other six candidates withdrew in protest of alleged fraud.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english/?id=8547 (296 words)

	Algerian president asked to quit -DAWN - International; 06 January, 2004
		Their call for the president to go came a day after police broke up an anti-Bouteflika demonstration outside parliament amid a widening rift within the FLN as presidential elections loom in April.
		The deployment of riot police in Algiers "again proves the determination of the powers that be to oppress freedoms, undermine democracy and the political pluralism which the Algerian people fought for tooth and nail."
		During the protest, the demonstrators shouted support for Benflis, called for a "Free and Democratic Algeria" and chanted anti-Bouteflika slogans, calling the president a "dictator" and a ""traitor" as the riot police and a few passers-by looked on.
	www.dawn.com /2004/01/06/int13.htm (347 words)

	International Herald Tribune - World News, Analysis, and Global Opinions
		Saturday's vote will be held, but a court will rule after the election on legal challenges against General Pervez Musharraf.
		The opening of the UN General Assembly, Ahmadinejad's visit to New York, the unrest in Myanmar, and other wor...
		Two years after a peace agreement with the north, southern Sudan struggles to develop despite funding and publ...
	www.iht.com (1241 words)

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