The head of EU electoral monitor mission in Algeria, Jose Ignacio Salafranca, said Thursday the country's parliamentary elections have been running smoothly so far.

"Everything is running normally and peacefully, for the moment, " Salafranca told reporters this morning after visiting some polling stations in the capital Algiers.

However, Mohamed Seddiki, head of the National Commission for Elections Supervision (CNSEL), told a press conference that some irregularities have been noticed since the beginning of the vote.

These irregularities include the lack of voting bulletins in some polling centers across the country, the late opening of some polling stations and the anarchic classification of voting bulletins among others, Seddiki said.

Seddiki added that about 15 complaints have been referred to the National Commission for the Supervision of Parliamentary Election (CNES), which is composed exclusively of magistrates.

Meanwhile, the Islamist Movement of Society for Peace (MSP), one of the three-party alliance of Green Algeria, said no major irregularity has been recorded nationwide so far.

Spokesman for the MSP, Kamel Mida, told Xinhua reporter that " there is nothing to report, except some minimal incidents including the lack of voting bulletins in some places."

Algeria has invited about 500 foreign monitors to supervise the parliamentary elections, in addition to the existence of two local monitoring and supervising commissions, namely the CNSEL, composed of representatives of political parties, and the CNES.