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Legitimacy, intellect, women and youth representativeness drop back

New parliament features
Saturday May 19 2007.

2007 legislative election parliament will be the worst in terms of public legitimacy, skilled human resources, the elderly in terms of age categories, the most divided between many political compositions and least in terms of women representativeness.

Compared to 2002 legislative election, the six legislature parliament will enjoy the least public legitimacy as participation rate in the fifth plural elections reached 35.65%. An outcome considered to be a referendum on the ruling system popularity drop back.

Rates repartition in the different Wilayas mirror that Southern regions and inner provinces known historically by supporting the nationalist trend have maintained the average, yet lesser than 2002 election one. However, centre Algeria Wilayas namely Algiers, Boumerdès, Tizi Ouzou, Bouira, Blida and Bejaia have consecrated the breaking-off with elections as the lowest rates have been recorded there in spite of the fact that they include the highest rates of voters and intellectuals.

Age average of MPs in the lower house construe that the overwhelming majority namely 199 MPs ages surpass the 60s which means that the next parliament will be the elderly assembly.

The drop back has also been mirrored in the intellectual level of MPs, and women representativeness that diminished by 5 seats compared to 2002 legislative election 26 seats.

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