The voting process for the parliamentary elections began in a number of southern Algerian governorates on Wednesday morning through offices allocated to remote areas where voting process has been held 24 hours before the elections scheduled to be held on Thursday. A total of 18,187 voters were registered in the governorate of Adrar in southern Algeria, as they have been distributed through 37 polling stations belonging to 26 electoral centers distributed among 14 municipalities in the various regions of the province.
The voting process in the province of Laghouat began in nine poll stations, which are distributed among different regions. In the state of the valley, 4,974 voters were registered in 11 poll stations distributed across different regions of the province.
Algerian security forces stepped up their measures during the voting process in the border provinces in the southern areas of the country to prevent any plans for extremist attacks and prevent the infiltration of extremists from Tunisia, Libya and Mali.
Algerian army forces, in coordination with Algerian security forces, imposed tight security control on polling stations existed the provinces close to the border areas with Mali, Niger, Tunisia and Morocco. The Chief of Staff of the Algerian Army, Lieutenant-General Ahmed Kayed Saleh, instructed the Air Defense Forces to adopt "the strategy of leadership of the Algerian army, to modernize and develop the air defense capabilities," stressing, at a meeting of military leaders, the need to ensure permanent safety National territory, and the sanctity of its borders and airspace.
The Algerian military leader intensified his movements in states close to countries experiencing security unrest, in a letter aimed at responding to foreign terrorist threats coming from behind the border.
On Thursday, Algeria is to hold its parliamentary elections, which will take place in different circumstances than those in which the past parliamentary elections were organized, given the sensitive structural changes that Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has made to the most prominent state institutions in recent years.
Days before the parliamentary elections, General Kaid Saleh, Deputy Minister of Defense of Algeria and Commander of the Army Staff, renewed the military's desire to remove suspicions about the channeling of the votes of its members in favor of the parties of the authority. He said, he said, "The duty of citizenship requires the members of the Algerian army to carry out their electoral duties outside the barracks in accordance with the laws of the Republic and in accordance with the measures taken in coordination with the Ministry of the Interior.”
The Deputy Minister of Defense followed the footsteps of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, calling the election date "important", a very vital national event for the Algerian people, which comes after the recent constitutional amendment initiated by the first judge of the country.
General Saleh assured the Algerian people about securing the upcoming parliamentary elections. He said that all security measures have been taken to secure the legislative elections scheduled to be held on May 4.