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Algerian Candidate Hassani Cherif's Campaign Says it Recorded Election Violations

Abdelaali Hassani Cherif, leader of the moderate Islamist Movement of the Society for Peace (MSP) and presidential candidate, gestures as he casts his vote at a polling station during the presidential election in Algiers, Algeria September 7, 2024. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights
Abdelaali Hassani Cherif, leader of the moderate Islamist Movement of the Society for Peace (MSP) and presidential candidate, gestures as he casts his vote at a polling station during the presidential election in Algiers, Algeria September 7, 2024. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights
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Algerian Candidate Hassani Cherif's Campaign Says it Recorded Election Violations

Abdelaali Hassani Cherif, leader of the moderate Islamist Movement of the Society for Peace (MSP) and presidential candidate, gestures as he casts his vote at a polling station during the presidential election in Algiers, Algeria September 7, 2024. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights
Abdelaali Hassani Cherif, leader of the moderate Islamist Movement of the Society for Peace (MSP) and presidential candidate, gestures as he casts his vote at a polling station during the presidential election in Algiers, Algeria September 7, 2024. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights

Algerian presidential candidate Abdelaali Hassani Cherif's campaign said in a statement on Sunday that it had recorded cases of violations in the country's Saturday presidential election, initial results of which have yet to be announced, Reuters reported.

The campaign said the violations included putting pressure on some polling station officials to inflate the results, failure to deliver vote-sorting records to the candidates' representatives, and instances of proxy group voting.

Algerians voted on Saturday in an election in which military-backed President Abdulmadjid Tebboune is widely expected to win a second term.

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Palestinian Prime Minister Says Palestinian Authority Should Run Gaza in Future

Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammed Mustafa and Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide attend a meeting of the Global Alliance for the implementation of the two-State Solution at Oslo City Hall in Oslo, Norway, January 15, 2025. (Heiko Junge/NTB/via Reuters)
Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammed Mustafa and Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide attend a meeting of the Global Alliance for the implementation of the two-State Solution at Oslo City Hall in Oslo, Norway, January 15, 2025. (Heiko Junge/NTB/via Reuters)
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Palestinian Prime Minister Says Palestinian Authority Should Run Gaza in Future

Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammed Mustafa and Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide attend a meeting of the Global Alliance for the implementation of the two-State Solution at Oslo City Hall in Oslo, Norway, January 15, 2025. (Heiko Junge/NTB/via Reuters)
Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammed Mustafa and Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide attend a meeting of the Global Alliance for the implementation of the two-State Solution at Oslo City Hall in Oslo, Norway, January 15, 2025. (Heiko Junge/NTB/via Reuters)

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa said it “will not be acceptable” for any entity other than the Palestinian Authority to run the Gaza Strip in the future.

Mustafa made the comments on Wednesday as he visited Norway, one of three European countries that formally recognized a Palestinian state in May.

Hamas seized power in Gaza in 2007, confining the Palestinian Authority’s limited self-rule to parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The US has called for a revitalized Palestinian Authority to govern both the West Bank and Gaza ahead of eventual statehood, which the Israeli government opposes.

“While we’re waiting for the ceasefire, it’s important to stress that it will not be acceptable for any entity to govern Gaza Strip but the legitimate Palestinian leadership and the government of the State of Palestine," Mustafa said.

He added that “any attempt to consolidate the separation between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, or creating transitional entities, will be rejected.”

Mustafa stressed that “we should not leave Gaza to vacuum ... We are the government of Palestine, ready to hold our responsibilities in the Gaza Strip as we did before.”