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Encyclopedia > Louiza Hanoune

Louisa (or Louiza) Hanoune is head of Algeria's Parti des Travailleurs (PT), or Workers' Party. In 2004, she became the first woman to run for president of that country.


Hanoune was imprisoned by the government several times prior to the legalization of political parties in 1988.


During Algeria's bloody civil war of the 1990s, Hanoune was one of the few opposition voices in parliament, and a strong opponent of the government's "eradication" policy toward islamists.


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L’effet Louiza Hanoune (346 words)
Le Parti des Travailleurs de Louiza Hanoune, précédemment représenté par seulement 04 députés dans la deuxième chambre parlementaire, a fait une remarquable percée lors du scrutin du 30 mai, ce qui lui permet d’en avoir maintenant 21 dans la nouvelle APN.
Ce score, pour tout dire, inattendu par son ampleur, est le résultat d’une campagne électorale que Louiza Hanoune et son parti avaient menée sous le signe de la conviction dans leurs principes doctrinaux et du courage dans leurs prises de position.
Louiza Hanoune et son parti recueille, aujourd’hui, l’adhésion électorale parce que, contrairement aux partis «démocrates», ils n’ont ni renié leurs principes passés, ni décrété que la démocratie en Algérie ne pouvait fleurir qu’à l’ombre des baïonnettes.
Marxism message, Algeria (628 words)
On Algeria: My only knowledge is of the PT, the section of the lambertist group in Algeria.
Louisa Hanoune was elected to parliament back in 1998, and in The organizer for february/march 1998 there appeared a double page spread by Saoudi Rached entitled Bakarat!
hanoune and three other PT leaders were elected to what themselves called a fradulent parliament with a 30% abstention rate.
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