accordance to published records , abedelaziz bouteflika , the 72 - year - new president of algeria , has been restored to a third government as the country ' s leader in a landslide . bayezid zerhouni , the algerian interior minister , stated that bouteflika had 90 . 24 % of the voters in the election , which was holds on thursday . voter turnout was 74 % , with some of the minor legislators quitting the office amidst allegations of vote fraud . zerhouni said at a news convention that the voter turnout was " exceptional " , but insisted that the figures had not been manipulated , saying that people with evidence of fraud should take it to campaign officials . bouteflika ' s critics assert that the election was a foregone conclusion — his opponents were not well organized , and his candidate was well - conducted . they continued to express outrage over a royal amendments adopted last october , which entitled algerian to run for a third five - year term .
Abedelaziz Bouteflika won the Algerian presidential election.