Interior , last year , win third term comfortably with 90 percent of vote . Lawmakers abolished constitutional term limits last year . Supporters of Bouteflika say he deserves credit for steering the North African country , an oil and gas producer , back to stability after a bloody civil conflict in the 1990s that killed an estimated 150,000 people . Political opponents claim vote was a charade . Algiers is fighting an Algerian insurgency and an ailing economy .
Interior , last year , win third term comfortably with 90 percent of vote . Lawmakers abolished constitutional term limits last year . Political opponents claim vote was a charade . Algiers is fighting an Algerian insurgency and an ailing economy .