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Mustache-cursing Accusations close out Algeria election campaign
2014-04-14
[Beirut Daily Star] Campaigning for Thursday's presidential election in Algeria ends Sunday after incumbent Abdelaziz Bouteflika
... 10th president of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third or fourth term, who will probably die in office of old age...
accused his only real rival of inciting violence and Ali Benflis warned about polling day fraud.

The 77-year-old Bouteflika, despite ailing health and not even appearing in person on the campaign trail, remains favorite to win a fourth term in the April 17 vote in the North African nation.

Presidential aides wound up the campaign on his behalf in Cherage southwest of the capital, where they praised the "miracle" of Bouteflika taking the country "from darkness into light."

The 69-year-old Benflis was to hold his last election rally later Sunday at Rouiba in the east.

Late Saturday, Bouteflika made a rare television appearance -- only his second since campaigning began -- to accuse the man who was once his prime minister of fomenting violence.

He accused him of "terrorism via the television," in reference to warnings the former premier made against electoral fraud.
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