Abdelmadjid Tebboune has won Algeria’s presidential election with 58% of the vote, the national electoral body says quoting preliminary results.
It also confirmed that voter turnout was just 40% – the lowest ever for a multi-party election in Algeria.
The polls had been boycotted by people in the protest movement who said all the candidates were too close to former President Bouteflika and wanted the political establishment swept away for a new kind of politics.
Mr Tebboune, 74, rose from a long career as a civil servant to become prime minister in 2017 but lasted just seven months because of a conflict with influential businessmen.
He also served as housing minister and information minister.
