National Liberation Front (Algeria)
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The National Liberation Front (Arabic: جبهة التحرير الوطني, romanized: Jabhatu l-Taḥrīri l-Waṭanī; French: Front de libération nationale) commonly known by its French acronym FLN,[lower-alpha 1] is a nationalist political party in Algeria. It was the principal nationalist movement during the Algerian War and the sole legal and ruling political party of the Algerian state until other parties were legalised in 1989.[19]
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National Liberation Front جبهة التحرير الوطني | |
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Abbreviation | FLN |
Secretary-General | Abdelkrim Benmbarek[1] |
Founded | 23 October 1954; 69 years ago (1954-10-23) |
Preceded by | CRUA |
Headquarters | Algiers |
Membership (2019) | 1,000,000[2] |
Ideology | Algerian nationalism[3] Arab nationalism[4][5][6] Pan-Arabism[7] Arab socialism[8][9] Social democracy[10][11] Revolutionary socialism[12] Secularism[13] Vanguardism[14] Anti-Zionism[15] Anti-imperialism[16][17] |
Political position | Centre-left[18] Historical: Left-wing |
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Council of the Nation | 54 / 144 |
People's National Assembly | 98 / 407 |
People's Provincial Assemblies | 711 / 2,004 |
Municipalities | 603 / 1,540 |
People's Municipal Assemblies | 7,603 / 24,876 |
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The FLN was established in 1954 following a split in the Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties from members of the Special Organisation paramilitary; its armed wing, the National Liberation Army, participated in the Algerian War from 1954 to 1962. After the Évian Accords of 1962, the party purged internal dissent and ruled Algeria as a one-party state. After the 1988 October Riots and the Algerian Civil War (1991–2002) against Islamist groups, the FLN was reelected to power in the 2002 Algerian legislative election, and has generally remained in power until 2007, when it started forming coalitions with other parties.