Algeria - Rabia Khureis
Mazuz Hussein, Secretary-General of Algerian Ministry of the Interior said, on Mnday, that the ministry has abolished more than 500,000 people from the voter lists, due to death or double registration, in preparation for the parliamentary elections scheduled on 4 May in the next year.
Mazuz confirmed in a press statement on Monday that the ministry has removed 436,000 dead and 287,000 double registered voters, after revision of the electoral lists, which lasted 15 days, from 8 to 21 February.
He said the total number of citizens invited to cast their votes in the elections, an estimated 23,000,276 voters "among 40 million total population," and blew up voter lists, during the past entitlements considerable controversy in Algeria between the opposition, which accuses each time including CI records dead voters to vote in their name in favor of the candidates of the names of the system which the government denies all at once.
This is the second operation of its kind and it came after those carried out by the Algerian Interior Ministry, in the first of October, in order to enable citizens who have reached 18 years on polling day and are not registered on the electoral lists of the register in the municipalities of residence, unlike the previous election dates will benefit the upcoming elections of the the advantages of modern technologies, including the appointment of electoral lists, thanks to the National registry of civil status, which will allow to avoid double registration and to facilitate the delisting process.