{"id":58849,"date":"2026-04-17T18:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=58849"},"modified":"2026-04-17T18:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:48:08","slug":"algerias-electoral-authority-responds-to-party-concerns-over-signature-form-process-ahead-of-july-2-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=58849","title":{"rendered":"Algeria&#8217;s Electoral Authority Responds to Party Concerns Over Signature Form Process Ahead of July 2 Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria&#8217;s National Independent Electoral Authority (ANIE) issued a clarifying statement Friday addressing observations raised by political parties regarding the withdrawal and notarization of individual signature forms ahead of the July 2, 2026 legislative elections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The process of withdrawing individual signature forms is proceeding normally across all wilayas, including newly established ones, as confirmed through real-time monitoring via our dedicated digital platform,&#8221; the authority told dzwatch.<\/p>\n<p>ANIE confirmed that signature forms remain available in sufficient quantities, allowing candidate lists to submit additional withdrawals \u2014 all tracked daily through the platform in real time.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding notarization, the authority clarified that voters may authenticate their signatures before designated public officials, including municipal secretaries-general, civil status officers, notaries, judicial officers, official translators, and heads of diplomatic or consular missions.<\/p>\n<p>ANIE, chaired by Karim Khelifane, called on all parties involved in the electoral process to ensure smooth operations and promptly address any reported shortcomings or irregularities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria&#8217;s National Independent Electoral Authority (ANIE) issued a clarifying statement Friday addressing observations raised by political parties regarding the withdrawal and notarization of individual signature forms ahead of the July 2, 2026 legislative elections. &#8220;The process of withdrawing individual signature forms is proceeding normally across all wilayas, including newly established ones, as confirmed through real-time &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algeria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}