She estimates a turnout of a couple of thousand, including activists, but also families, people of every age, "just dancing, shaking their money makers, like a gorgeous outdoor festival".
While organisers put the number of those joining Tuesday's rally from Victoria Park to the city's Central district at more than half a million, the University of Hong Kong's public opinion programme estimated a turnout of between 154,000 and 172,000.
They estimated that turnout in some neighborhoods was 80percentt, even though diplomats and news accounts estimated a much lower turnout: about 10percentt.
Electoral officials estimated a nearly 80% turnout.
Although the government claimed 61% of the voters cast ballots and 74% of those plumped for Mr Bouteflika, practically all foreign diplomats and journalists observing the polls estimated a much lower turnout.
Normally on Monday, an estimated 17,300 turnout at yet another Pegida anti-immigration demonstration in Dresden.
In the past week, dueling demonstrations have occupied public spaces in Tunisia's capital, with media reports estimating turnout in the tens of thousands, making them some of the largest street protests since the Arab Spring uprising that brought down dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011.
In truth, with a turnout estimated at around 300, the threat seems a little empty.
This debate remained unsettled on Sunday night, when the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) announced a preliminary voter turnout rate of 61.3percentt, while the nongovernmental observer group, Hagamos Democracia, announced an estimated turnout from its quick count at 47.6percentt.
The American embassy, in a cable revealed by WikiLeaks, estimated voter turnout at less than half of the 75% Algeria's election authorities registered for the 2009 poll.
