Algeria declares former PM Tebboune winner of presidential election

Algeria's electoral body said on Friday that former prime minister Abdelmadjid Tebboune had won Thursday's presidential election with 58% of the vote, according to preliminary results.

The final voter turnout was 40%, the electoral body's head said in a televised news conference in Algiers.

(Reporting By Hamid Ould Ahmed, writing by Angus McDowall; Editing by Catherine Evans)

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