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The National Liberation Front (French: Front de libération nationale, Arabic: Jabhah al-Taḩrīr al-Waţanī) is a socialist political party in Algeria. It was set up on November 1, 1954 as a merger of other smaller groups, to obtain independence for Algeria from France.


The party was a continuation of the revolutionary body that directed the war for independence against France. The National Liberation Front was created by the Revolutionary Committee of Unity and Action. This Committee urged all the warring factions of the nationalist movement to unite and fight against France. By 1956 nearly all the nationalist organizations in Algeria had joined the National Liberation Front. At this time the National Liberation Front reorganized into something like a provisional government. It consisted of a five-man executive and legislative body.


The war for independence continued until March of 1962 when finally, the French government signed a cease-fire agreement with the National Liberation Front. In July of that same year the Algerian people voted for a referendum that approved the cease-fire agreement with France and supported economic and social cooperation between the two countries as well.


After independence, the party experienced an internal power stuggle. To counter this the Political Bureau was established by Ahmed Ben Bella, Colonel Houari Boumedienne, and Muhammad Khidr. Ahmed Ben Bella became the Premier in 1963 but was overthrown by Colonel Boumedienne in 1965. The Colonel held tight control over the party leadership until his death in 1978, at which time the party reorganized into its present incarnation.


The National Liberation Front held the position of being the sole legal party in Algeria until the late 1980s, when the Algerian constitution was finally amended to allow a multiparty system.


The party received 34.3% of the parliamentary vote in the latest elections of 2002 and has 199 members in parliament. The National Liberation Front is currently led by General Secretary and Algerian Prime Minister Ali Benflis.


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Magnum Search results for: ALGERIA. Algerian Liberation Army (FLN). 1957. (431 words)
Members of the FLN form a unit for a 'flag raising' ceremony in the forest, the soldier in the center carries the FLN flag.
Soldiers of the FLN secret army hiding in a forest, are brought water by a boy from a nearby village.
FLN Officer talking to a small Algerian boy who has his classes in the forest where the secret army is hiding, the boy has the Koran written on the wooden board.
Al-Ahram Weekly | Region | FLN-Bouteflika battle widens (746 words)
The ruling was made in response to a complaint lodged by a pro-Bouteflika "reform movement" within the FLN in a continuing legal tug of war between the two factions.
"The FLN parliamentary group expresses its indignation at the abusive and inappropriate use of repressive means, the sole objective of which is to still the voice of the people's elected representatives," the anti-Bouteflika statement said.
The FLN is facing its worst internal crisis since the October 1988 riots ended the monopoly of power it had enjoyed since leading the 1954-62 war of independence from France.
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