ALGERIA: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS PREVIEW скачать в хорошем качестве

ALGERIA: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS PREVIEW

(13 Nov 1995) French/Arabic The presidential election in Algeria is just days away and the main candidates are making their last appearances to lobby for votes. President Liamine Zeroual faces three challengers in the race but is expected to defeat them in the first round of balloting Thursday. Campaigning ends at midnight Monday for the candidates. Despite threats of violence, Algerian voters attended their candidates final rallies in the run up to this week's presidential elections. Extremists groups trying to topple the government and install Islamic rule have threatened to kill voters. But supporters chanted and cheered as they showed up to hear President Liamine Zeroual speak as his Nationalist campaign comes to an end. Zeroual is a retired general appointed in 1994 to guide the government through a three - year transition to democracy. He is expected to win the first round of voting. Sheik Mahfoudh Nahnah, a moderate Islamic activist and president of the Hamas movement, addressed thousands of supporters in his final rally in Algiers. 53-year old Nahnah is considered President Liamine Zeroual's main challenger. Most of the political opposition is boycotting the election, declaring it a charade to prop up Zeroual's military backed administration. But the presidential candidates refused to bow to threats of violence. Nourreddine Boukrouk of the Algerian Renewal Party was surrounded by security as he walked through the streets. The only candidate not to end his campaign in Algiers was 48-year old Said Sadi of the Assembly for Democracy and Culture. On Sunday he met with supporters in the capital before he went to Bechar in the southeast of the country to appeal to his countrymen to overcome their fear and silence Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...