according to official results , abedelaziz thabo , the 72 - year - old president of algeria , has been reelected to a seventh term as the country ' s leadership in a landslide . umayyad zerhouni , the algerian interior ministries , claimed that zeroual obtained 90 . 24 % of the ballots in the election , which was held on fridays . voter polling was 74 % , with some of the governing parties boycotting the election amidst accusation of government cheat . zerhouni said at a news rally that the candidate registration was " exceptional " , but insisted that the figures had not been inflated , saying that anyone with knowledge of corruption should take it to election officials . bouteflika ' s critics assert that the contest was a foregone conclusion — his competitors were not well known , and his campaign was well - planned . they failed to voice outrage over a constitutional amendment adopted last november , who allowed chirac to run for a first multi - year term .
Abedelaziz Bouteflika won the Algerian presidential election.