The acting president of the National Independent Electoral Authority (ANIE), Karim Khelfane, confirmed from the Tipasa province that ongoing operations for the upcoming legislative elections scheduled for July 2 are unfolding under highly disciplined organizational frameworks.
Following a working visit to ANIE’s coordination headquarters in Tipasa on Monday, Khelfane told reporters that he is monitoring the progression of polling preparations “on a daily and real-time basis.” This tracking covers the extraordinary revision of voter registries, registrations, the retrieval of candidacy files, signature gathering, and the formal submission of applications, for which the deadline expired Monday at midnight.
The official emphasized that the entire electoral process is being carried out in tandem with various stakeholders, including political parties, noting that ANIE remains “in permanent communication and actively listening.”
Regarding the Tipasa province, where he traveled to assess general readiness, the interim ANIE chief expressed his satisfaction with the total preparedness and strict administrative setup established ahead of the July 2 ballot.
He specified that 457,668 voters are registered across the province, distributed among 207 voting hubs that encompass 1,113 polling stations located throughout the various municipalities.
Concluding his tour, Khelfane also visited ANIE’s municipal delegation office in Cherchell, where he inspected the status of arrangements for the forthcoming vote, which is backed by a sustained administrative and structural mobilization.
It is worth noting that ANIE revealed on Tuesday the final metrics regarding the submission of legislative candidacy files, just one day after the legal deadline passed.
The electoral body reported that 1,484 candidacy packets were picked up across the 69 provinces. Thirty-six political organizations successfully entered 1,208 electoral lists. Independent factions submitted 275 lists, while a singular political alliance put forward one list.
Furthermore, the agency noted that prospective candidates collected 1,897,248 voter endorsement forms domestically, alongside 2,102 distributed to Algerian citizens residing abroad.
Nevertheless, approximately 786 electoral lists have successfully cleared the initial hurdle of gathering signatures from voters or from elected officials for parties currently holding seats in the National People’s Assembly, adhering to constitutional mandates and organic electoral laws. These cleared lists account for 10,144 potential parliamentary candidates.
Additionally, ANIE logged 528 candidate registrations for the July 2 legislative race competing for seats designated specifically for representatives of the Algerian diaspora living abroad.