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Algeria’s Constitutional Court officially declared President Abdelmadjid Tebboune the winner of the country’s September 7 election on Saturday, with 84.3 percent of the vote.

Earlier preliminary results announced by the country’s electoral authority, ANIE, showed that Tebboune received nearly 95 percent of the votes.

The 78-year-old incumbent president first came to power in 2019, following a political crisis and the resignation of the late President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.