according to unofficial results , abedelaziz bouteflika , the 72 - year - old president of algeria , has been restored to a third term as the country ' s leader in a landslide . mehmed zerhouni , the algerian interior spokesman , said that bouteflika claimed 90 . 24 % of the voted in the election , itself was held on november . voter turnout was 74 % , with some of the opposition party boycotting the polls amidst allegations of political cheating . zerhouni said at a press conference that the voter turnout was " exceptional " , but argued that the figures had not been manipulated , saying that anybody with claims of fraud should take it to campaign officials . bouteflika ' s allies assert that the decision was a inevitable conclusion — his opponents were not poorly received , and his campaign was poor - funded . they continued to display alarm over a constitutional amendment adoption last november , whereby authorized bouteflika to ran for a third five - years government .
abedelaziz nursultan won the 2009 senate election .