Algeria Sets July Parliament Vote as President Gets More Powers

Algeria’s National Assembly building in Algiers.

Photographer: Ryad Kramdi/AFP/Getty Images

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune set July 2 for parliamentary elections, after the OPEC member made constitutional changes that increased some of his powers.

The date for voting on a new national popular assembly was announced in a decree published in the official gazette on Monday. “An exceptional revision” of electoral lists is due to start this month.