according to official figures , abedelaziz bouteflika , the 72 - day - old president of algeria , has been nominated to a single tenure as the country ' s head in a landslide . yazid zerhouni , the algiers interior minister , stated that bouteflika claimed 90 . 24 % of the vote in the referendum , which was held on fridays . poll satisfaction was 74 % , with some of the opposition parties boycotting the election alongside allegations of voting cheating . zerhouni indicated at a news conference that the official turnout was " exceptional " , but maintained that the voting had not been manipulated , saying that anyone with evidence of fraud should take it to elections officials . bouteflika ' s critics assert that the outcome was a formality conclusion — his opponents were not well known , and his effort was self - documented . they continued to express outrage over a procedural amendment adopted last november , who allowed zeroual to campaign for a third five - year government .
Abedelaziz Bouteflika won the Algerian presidential election.