Images of Algeria's three candidates for the early presidential election of September 7. Abdelmadjid Tebboune, 78, announced on 11 July that he wanted to run for a second term, after bringing forward the presidential election by four months to early September. He was elected in December 2019 in elections that saw a low turnout (around 40%), in the wake of the Hirak, the massive pro-democracy demonstrations which led to the fall in April of the same year of his predecessor Abdelaziz Bouteflika after 20 years in power. Youssef Aouchiche, a 41-year-old former journalist and member of parliament, has been the leader of the Socialist Forces Front (FFS), a historic opposition party rooted in the Kabylie region (east), since 2020. The third contender, Abdelaali Hassani, a 57-year-old public works engineer, is the president of the main Islamist party, the Movement of Society for Peace (MSP), which did not take part in the 2019 elections. IMAGES