By RFPosted on 07-12-2019Modified on 07-12-2019 at 18:05

Algerian expatriates can visit their consulate since Saturday, December 7 to participate in the disputed presidential election on December 12. In France in particular, the security was reinforced in front of the consular buildings where demonstrators had gathered to denounce an election which "perpetuates the system" according to them.

In front of the Consulate General of Algeria in the 11th district of Paris, the atmosphere was electric for this first day of voting of Algerians from abroad, this December 7th. A cordon of police had been deployed to verify the identity of the voters and to keep away a group of demonstrators mobilized early in the morning.

For the latter, the report is irrevocable: " Vote is betraying his country " while they continue to reject the " system ", and call for a total boycott of the December 12 election , convinced that it will allow the power to " regenerate ".

" Elections of shame "

On the side of the few voters who came to slip their ballot in the ballot box, it is above all to " get out of the status quo " that worries them. For those expatriates who have sometimes left Algeria for several decades, voting is often presented as a " duty " and the only way to allow the country to move forward.

The scene was repeated this December 7 in Lyon, Reims, Saint-Etienne or Bobigny, one of the largest consulates in France. But the Algerian diaspora has also gathered before the consular representations in New York, Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland or Spain. This mobilization should continue in the coming days to try to denounce what the protesters of Hirak call " elections of shame ".

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