Algeria

December 2005 | Risk Summary

Two opposition parties, the Socialist Forces Front (FFS) and the Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD), have topped polls in the Berber-majority Kabylie region. The FFS remains ahead of its rival the RCD but by a reduced majority. As part of a peace plan aimed at ending unrest in the province, President Bouteflika dissolved the local councils elected in 2002, when Berber leaders advocated a boycott and turnout was less than 16%. However, while not helped by bad weather on polling day, the low turnout of 30% this time round still indicates a lack of confidence in the political

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