{"id":60894,"date":"2026-05-20T12:20:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T11:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=60894"},"modified":"2026-05-20T12:20:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T11:20:50","slug":"algerias-july-2-legislative-elections-candidacy-files-closed-amid-striking-absence-of-political-alliances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=60894","title":{"rendered":"Algeria&#8217;s July 2 Legislative Elections: Candidacy Files Closed Amid Striking Absence of Political Alliances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The midnight deadline for submitting candidacy files for Algeria&#8217;s upcoming legislative elections, scheduled for July 2, has officially passed \u2014 and the political landscape tells a revealing story.<\/p>\n<p>Across the country&#8217;s wilayas, electoral alliances between political parties were virtually nonexistent. The sole exception was a single joint list registered in Jijel wilaya, formed between the &#8220;Fajr El Jadid&#8221; and &#8220;Algeria El Jadida&#8221; parties along with a diaspora list.<\/p>\n<p>Officials from both parties told <strong>dzwatch<\/strong> exclusively that the limited alliance stemmed from a shared desire to compete jointly on a broader scale, but that organizational hurdles prevented its expansion \u2014 most notably, Algeria El Jadida&#8217;s delayed entry into the electoral process due to ongoing efforts to finalize its legal status and prepare for its third party congress, which coincided with the signature collection phase.<\/p>\n<p>Other attempts to revive coordination among ideologically aligned political formations \u2014 reminiscent of the &#8220;Green Algeria Alliance&#8221; that brought together several parties in the 2012 elections \u2014 ultimately failed to materialize, underscoring a significant retreat in inter-party cooperation ahead of this critical vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The midnight deadline for submitting candidacy files for Algeria&#8217;s upcoming legislative elections, scheduled for July 2, has officially passed \u2014 and the political landscape tells a revealing story. Across the country&#8217;s wilayas, electoral alliances between political parties were virtually nonexistent. The sole exception was a single joint list registered in Jijel wilaya, formed between the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60893,"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":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60894","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\/60894","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=60894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}