Ailing Bouteflika eyes 4th term as Algeria votes

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https://s2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/k5C9YpryLz1uh4sFcPAr6g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en-AE_XE/News/AFPIntEn/a25b21578290d62c0b469b125e9ee71f9a9505b4.jpg (https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/ailing-bouteflika-eyes-4th-term-algeria-votes-072748731.html)Algerians were voting in presidential elections on Thursday, with incumbent Abdelaziz Bouteflika widely expected to win a fourth term despite chronic health problems, fraud warnings and opposition calls for a boycott. Bouteflika faces the damaging possibility of a low tur**ut, with youth activists and opposition parties loudly calling on Algerians to snub the poll, and many questioning whether he is fit to rule. Unable to take to the campaign trail himself, Bouteflika delegated that task to a team of loyalists, who an**unced on Wednesday that he would vote in person -- as the constitution requires -- at an Algiers polling station, after some local media doubted his ability to do so. Youth protest group Barakat (E**ugh), a rare public expression of the anger and frustration felt by some Algerians towards political authoritarianism, was founded just two months ago specifically to oppose the president's bid for a fourth term.




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