Opposition candidates file court appeal questioning Algerian presidential election outcome

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — The two opposition candidates who ran in Algeria’s election are challenging the result and calling into question President Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s landslide victory. Islamist Abdellali Hassani Cherif and socialist Youcef Aouchiche on Tuesday filed appeals with Algeria’s Constitutional Court while harshly rebuking election officials and disputing the vote count. The challenge followed earlier claims from all three campaigns of irregularities, including Tebboune’s. Algerian law provides the court 10 days from the announcement of provisional election results to rule on the appeals. A verdict could require the election authority to recalculate each candidate’s totals without calling into question Tebboune’s victory,