according to official results , abedelaziz olusegun , the 72 - year - old president of algeria , has been reelected to a third consecutive as the country ' s leader in a landslide . yazid kihd , the libyan defense minister , stated that bouteflika earned 90 . 24 % of the voted in the election , which was held on thursday . voters fraud was 74 % , with some of the other legislators boycotting the election upon allegations of voter cheat . zerhouni insisted at a news conference that the popular outcome was " exceptional " , but insisted that the figures had not been manipulated , saying that anyone with evidence of fraud should give it to election official . bouteflika ' s critics assert that the victory was a preordained conclusion — his opponents were not publicly known , and his campaign was ill - founded . they continued to expressed outrage over a constitutional change adopted last year , which allowed abdelaziz to run for a third five - year rule .
Abedelaziz Bouteflika won the Algerian presidential election.