Friday, 05/05/2017 16:30 (GMT+7)
Angerian voters on May 4th were registered to elect new members of the parliament's lower house for a five-year term.
(Photo: AP)
A total of 12,000 candidates are standing for 462 seats in the People's National Assembly, with a registered electorate of 23 million.
Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal called for a "massive vote", and said that women should wake their husbands up early, refuse them coffee and then "drag" them to the voting booth.
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika said a strong turnout was essential for "the stability of the country".
In a country of 40 million, half of them aged under 30, one young person in three is unemployed./.
Compiled by BTA