ALGIERS, Algeria — In a story Feb. 10 about Algeria’s presidential election, The Associated Press reported erroneously that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is 82. In the two weeks since the electoral process was launched, 186 people have requested the documents needed to declare their candidacy. 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.

Source: Washington Post February 11, 2019 11:48 UTC