In this Feb. 5, 2019, photo, a man walks past a poster asking citizen to register to vote in Algiers. That’s more than double the number of potential candidates at this stage in the last presidential election, in 2014. Would-be candidate Salah Kemmach wants to run because he was born the day that former President Houari Boumediene died in 1978. Other parties said they were approached by people offering to drum up signatures for potential candidates in exchange for cash. Bouteflika won the 2014 election with 81 percent of the vote despite not even appearing in his own campaign.

Source: Washington Post February 10, 2019 08:12 UTC