Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika
- Bouteflika, 77, suffered a stroke last year
- He is widely expected to win a fourth term
- In 2009, he captured about 90 percent of the vote
- In 2008, he amended constitution to allow for unlimited re-election of sitting presidents
- He's backed by the ruling National Liberation Front Party
- He took power in 1999, near the end of a civil war