Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika won 90.24 percent of the vote in a presidential election, officials said on Friday, according to Reuters. "Bouteflika has won ... 90.24 percent of the votes cast," Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni, in charge of organising Thursday's election told a news conference. Bouteflika's nearest rival, Trotskyist candidate Louisa Hannoune, won 4.22 percent of the vote, the minister said. The ministry had already announced turnout was 74.11 percent -- higher than in the last presidential vote.
