{"id":126811,"date":"2021-06-17T12:43:25","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T04:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=126811"},"modified":"2021-06-17T12:44:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T04:44:23","slug":"algerias-ruling-party-wins-legislative-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=126811","title":{"rendered":"Algeria&#8217;s ruling party wins legislative elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/s.france24.com\/media\/display\/97ece922-ce04-11eb-8771-005056a964fe\/w:980\/p:16x9\/000_9C93XX%20%281%29.webp\" alt=\"The president of the National Independent Elections Authority (ANIE), Mohamed Charfi, speaks during a press conference in Algiers on June 15, 2021.\"\/><figcaption>The president of the National Independent Elections Authority (ANIE), Mohamed Charfi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"article-123\">ALGIERS, June 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Algeria&#8217;s ruling party, the National Liberation Front (FLN), won the legislative elections held on Saturday, June 12 amid historically high abstention rates and a political crisis, the National Elections Authority announced.<br><br>Its victory surprised many observers who had written off the party due to its links with former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.<br><br>The FLN led with 105 of the 407 seats, followed by independent candidates with 78 seats. The country&#8217;s main Islamist party, the Movement of Society for Peace (MSP), which had claimed victory in the polls, came third with 64 seats, elections commission president Mohamed Chorfi told reporters.<br><br>The FLN&#8217;s share of seats has recorded a significant decline compared to the last elections.<br><br>It lost more than 50 seats and controls a quarter of the elected members of the new assembly.<br><br>The Rassemblement national d\u00e9mocratique (RND), with which the FLN has traditionally allied itself, won 57 seats (14%).<br><br>&#8220;The foundations of this Parliament were built in freedom and transparency by the people,&#8221; said Mohamed Chorfi.<br><br>The commission said 5.6 million voters out of more than 24 million voters took part in the exercise. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALGIERS, June 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Algeria&#8217;s ruling party, the National Liberation Front (FLN), won the legislative elections held on Saturday, June 12 amid historically high abstention rates and a political crisis, the National Elections Authority announced. Its victory surprised many observers who had written off the party due to its links with former President Abdelaziz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126811"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}