President Abdelaziz
Bouteflika... 10th president of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third term, which is probably why Algerians are ready to dump him...
's National Liberation Front (FLN) won 220 out of 462 seats up for grabs in Thursday's election, the first since the Arab Spring, improving on its share in the outgoing national assembly.
An alliance of moderate Islamist parties and the four other Islamist groups could only manage a combined 66 seats, a major setback after predicting victory during the campaign.
The National Rally for Democracy (RND) of Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia, a nationalist party close to the military and loyal to Bouteflika, was second with 68 seats, compared to 62 in the outgoing house.
Algeria's governing coalition so far included the FLN, the RND and the largest of the legal Islamist parties, the Movement of Society for Peace.
Friday's provisional results, which have yet to be confirmed by the constitutional council, mean the FLN and the RND could form a majority without the Islamists.
The main Islamist alliance, Green Algeria, garnered a paltry 48 seats and charged widespread fraud.
"There has been large scale manipulation of the real results announced in the regions, an irrational exaggeration of these results to favor the administration parties," it said in a statement. "This will lead to a travesty of the election, contradicting the spirit of the political reforms, and will kill off what little hope and trust the people still had."