- ALGIERS: Algeria on Friday declared its ruling party since independence winner of a parliamentary election.
Interior Minister Daho Ould Kablia, reading the results of Thursday’s vote at a news conference, said the ruling National Liberation Front (FLN) had 220 seats in the 462-seat parliament.The RND party of Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia was in second place with 68 seats, and the moderate Islamist Green Algeria alliance was third with 48, the minister said.

