25 million centimes in exchange for withdrawing the presidential nomination form – New Algeria

The Independent National Elections Authority has set a condition for those wishing to run in exchange for withdrawing a form Nomination In addition to other traditional conditions, after President Abdelmadjid Tebboune summoned the electoral college for presidential elections The upcoming and expected one is on the 7th of next September.

This condition aims to cut off those who are accustomed to underestimating and disrupting the electoral process by flooding the race at its beginning with fake candidates, as they submit every time to withdraw the nomination forms and then stop midway, not because they are unable to collect the required signatures, but rather to draw the attention of the public. General, their names appear on the lists of candidates who have withdrawn their candidacy files.

Today, in accordance with the statement issued by the Independent National Election Authority on Saturday, the eighth of June, which stated, among other things, that based on the provisions of Article 250 of Order No. 21/01, those wishing to run must deposit a financial guarantee estimated at two hundred and fifty thousand Algerian dinars, With public treasury interests located across the entire national territory.

Under this condition, anyone who wishes to run for recklessness is free to run by the electoral processOr for other purposes, to pay from his pocket 25 million centimes to the public treasury, which is the amount that will compensate the public treasury the financial burdens for every nomination file withdrawn by a fictitious candidate, obsessed with the love of appearance.

Election dates at this level are accustomed to witnessing the emergence of unknown names, competing for the headquarters of the Independent National Election Authority, in order to withdraw nomination forms, and there they find television cameras waiting for them and journalists waiting for them, as they take statements, pictures and videos from them, and they are broadcast and written or broadcast in the media. Public and private, then this type of candidate’s projects flaunts in front of people’s eyes as being among the most prominent people competing for the position of the first judge in the country, and then they quickly disappear immediately after they begin collecting signatures.

This phenomenon spread strongly during the second term of former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, as observers noticed that people who were not known to practice politics had their candidacy files withdrawn, including those who did not have the lowest level of education and others who worked as guards in some private media institutions, and the purpose of this was to belittle. An institution the size of the Presidency of the Republic.

This matter led to the intervention of the Algerian legislator to introduce amendments to the organic law for elections, by setting a condition for withdrawing the candidacy file related to the educational level, which must be below university level. Although this defect was addressed, the phenomenon continued, but in another form, which is withdrawing the file. Candidacy for presidential elections, but only for the purpose of withdrawal.