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The president of ANIE, Mohamed Charfi.
The race for the presidential candidacy on September 7 seems to have got off to a flying start. Until Tuesday, 14 contenders for this electoral deadline have already withdrawn, from the National Independent Electoral Authority (ANIE), no less than a million sponsorship signature forms. This was made known yesterday by the president of ANIE, Mohamed Charfi.
It is therefore a race against time for the candidates, who must collect a large number of required signatures, which had already constituted a real obstacle for some who presented themselves at the previous deadlines. The electoral law requires each candidate to collect at least 60,000 voter signatures, which must be collected across at least 25 wilayas, with a minimum of 1,500 signatures in each wilaya.
Failing this, candidates have the alternative of collecting at least 600 signatures from elected members of municipal popular assemblies, wilayas or parliamentarians, distributed at least across 25 wilayas. Still according to the electoral law, presidential candidates have a period of 40 days to submit their candidacy files to ANIE, which includes, in addition to a university diploma and the receipt of a deposit of 250,000 DA deposited with the Public Treasury, other administrative documents to be attached, under the provisions of the country’s fundamental law.
After detailing these formalities, the president of ANIE revealed that the national electoral body reached 24 million voters, including one million voters from the Algerian diaspora, during his intervention on the airwaves of the National Radio. Speaking on the exceptional revision of the electoral lists, which began yesterday, Mr. Charfi indicated that the legally qualified commissions are responsible for the revision of said lists “in a legal and orderly manner”, before recalling that this operation will continue. until June 27, as specified by the presidential decree convening the electoral body.
This exceptional revision of the electoral lists will be supervised by the ANIE, which is responsible, according to the organic law relating to the electoral system, for “maintaining, in accordance with the legislation in force, a national register of voters composed of all the electoral lists of municipalities and diplomatic and consular posts”. The operation concerns the 1,541 municipalities in the country as well as consular representations abroad, to allow the national community established abroad to participate in the next electoral meeting.
In the same context, Mr. Charfi underlined the right of candidates for the next presidential election to access the electoral lists after the announcement, by the Constitutional Court, of the final electoral list, in order to ensure the integrity and transparency of the electoral process.
On the other hand, Mr. Charfi revealed that the Authority he chairs has decided to move towards “participatory supervision” of the next electoral process, by involving political parties, representatives of candidates and representatives of civil society. The objective, he insisted, is to ensure good supervision of the voting operation. “Participatory democracy is the best way to prove the credibility of electoral processes,” assured Mr. Charfi, before reassuring that all the conditions necessary for the successful organization of the election are met.