La parole à la Cour constitutionnelle

The floor to the Constitutional Court

Three presidential candidates selected by ANIE

The information was given on Thursday by the president of the National Independent Authority for Elections (ANIE), Mohamed Charfi, during a press conference: Abdelaali Hassani Cherif (Movement of Society for Peace, MSP), Youcef Aouchiche (Front of Socialist Forces, FFS), and Abdelmadjid
Tebboune are the three of the sixteen candidates for the presidential candidacy of September 7, who have fulfilled the conditions set by the organic law relating to the electoral system. Two of them immediately reacted in statements to the press to this announcement. The president of the MSP, Abdelaali Hassani Cherif, affirmed that this deadline was an “opportunity to continue the path traced by the Declaration of November 1, 1954, to build a strong economy capable of achieving the well-being of Algerians and preserving social security” for our country.
He also indicated that he was working on preparing his election campaign and the vote by “bringing together all the conditions of creativity, and raising voters’ awareness of the importance of this election through tours” that will be carried out inside and outside the country in order to meet the Algerian community abroad. Abdelaali Hassani Cherif also thanked all the citizens who placed their trust in him.
For his part, the first national secretary of the FFS, Youcef Aouchiche, affirmed that his candidacy for this presidential election was the bearer of a national project and a message of hope for a better tomorrow for all Algerians. Youcef Aouchiche expressed “his pride and his sense of responsibility to carry a message of hope for a better tomorrow for all Algerians.”
He renewed his commitment to political activity for “a national project that aims to convince the greatest number of Algerians”, adding that he intended, on the occasion of the presidential election, “to represent the democratic, progressive and modernist national current” and to make this deadline “an opportunity to revive the public debate”.
The first national secretary of the FFS finally thanked all citizens and elected officials for their trust in him. The ANIE transferred the candidates’ files to the Constitutional Court, which has a maximum of 7 days to examine the candidacy files and process appeals. The Constitutional Court recalled, in a press release on Tuesday, the procedures for filing appeals relating to decisions rejecting candidacies for the presidential election on September 7 by the ANIE.
“The person concerned must have been the subject of a decision by the ANIE rejecting his candidacy,” the press release states, adding that “the appeal must be filed with the registry of the Constitutional Court, by the person concerned or his duly authorized representative, within a maximum period of 48 hours following the time of notification of the decision,” according to the Court’s press release.
In this regard, the Acting Director General of Legal Affairs and Constitutional Justice at the Constitutional Court, Ahmed Brahim Boukhari, revealed that only one candidate for the candidacy had filed an appeal with the registry service at the Constitutional Court. After examining the application files and appeals, the final list of successful candidates will be known.
Then the decisive phase of the electoral process will begin with the electoral campaign which is declared open twenty-three days before the date of the vote and ends three days before the date of the vote.
The election campaign will allow candidates to present their presidential programs and try to convince voters to win their votes.
As a reminder, in accordance with the organic law on the electoral system, the candidate must submit either a list containing at least 600 individual signatures of elected members of communal, wilaya or parliamentary popular assemblies and distributed across at least 29 wilayas, or a list containing at least 50,000 individual signatures of voters registered on an electoral list. These signatures must be collected across at least 29 wilayas. The minimum number of signatures required for each of the wilayas cannot be less than 1,200.
Lakhdar A.