ALGERIA: VOTING SCENES, INCLUDING COLONEL BOUMEDIENNE, IN FIRST MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS SINCE INDEPENDENCE

Record ID: 574488

  • Title: ALGERIA: VOTING SCENES, INCLUDING COLONEL BOUMEDIENNE, IN FIRST MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS SINCE INDEPENDENCE
  • Date: 5th February 1967
  • Summary: 1. GV TILT DOWN MOSQUE 0.08 2. LV BANNER ACROSS STREET "5 FEVRIER 1967-VOTEZ-EN MASSE" 0.11 3. GV PLATFORM SURROUNDED BY CROWD 0.14 4. SV MOSLEM WOMEN LISTEN 0.16 5. SCU SIGN, PAN TO LONG QUEUE 0.27 6. SV HEAD OF QUEUE 0.30 7. SV OFFICIALS WITH VOTERS 0.32 8. SV OFFICIAL LETS PEOPLE INTO BUILDING 0.34 9. SV COLONEL BOUMEDIENNE IN VOTING ROOM 0.39 10. SV MORE PEOPLE WAITING TO ENTER 0.41 11. SV BOUMEDIENNE CASTS HIS VOTE 0.49 12. LV WOMEN AROUND BALLOT BOX 0.52 13. SCU DITTO 0.56 14. SV & CU VOTER PLACES VOTE IN BOX (2 SHOTS) 1.05 15. GV CROWD OUTSIDE 1.09 Initials RM/V/AE-RM/SGM Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 20th February 1967 12:00
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  • Location: ALGIERS, ALGERIA
  • Country: Algeria
  • Reuters ID: LVADDMIXZ0FK7VNMYJ50CNZSMZLP
  • Story Text: THE LEADERS OF ALGERIA'S RULING NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT, COLONEL HOUARI, BOUMEDIENNE, WAS POISED TONIGHT (SUNDAY) FOR AN OVERWHELMING POPULAR MANDATE IN ALGERIA'S FIRST ELECTIONS SINCE HIS SUCCESSFUL MILITARY COUP AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT BEN BELLA 20 20 MONTHS AGO. EARLIER, ABOUT 500 ONLOOKERS GATHERED AROUND A VOTING BOOTH IN CENTRAL ALGERIA TODAY TO WATCH IN SILENCE AS COLONEL BOUMEDIENNE CAST HIS OWN VOTE.

    THESE ARE THE FIRST MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS SINCE INDEPENDENCE FIVE YEARS AGO, AND THEY'RE SEEN IN ALGIERS AS A TEST OF OPINION OF COLONEL BOUMEDIENNE'S LEADERSHIP. IT'S REPORTED THAT VOTING, WHICH WAS SLOW AT FIRST, TOOK PART IN A SERENE ATMOSPHERE. THE COUNTRY'S ELECTORATE -- ABOUT 7,000,000 PEOPLE -- WILL CHOOSE 10,000 REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE 20,000 CANDIDATES OUT FORWARD BY THE NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT.

    IN MOST AREAS LONG ORDERLY QUEUES FORMED OUTSIDE POLLING BOOTHS SOON AFTER THEY OPENED. WOMEN WERE VOTING IN THE ELECTION FOR THE FIRST TIME, IN SPITE OF WIDESPREAD OPPOSITION FROM MANY ALGERIAN MEN.
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