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Movement for Democracy in Algeria

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Movement for Democracy in Algeria
الحركة من أجل الديموقراطية في الجزائر
Mouvement pour la démocratie en Algérie
FounderAhmed Ben Bella
Founded28 April 1982
Legalised1990
Banned10 June 1997[1]
IdeologyModerate Islamism
Islamic Socialism
Progressivism
Arab nationalism
Algerian nationalism
Pan-Maghrebism[2]
Anti-Zionism
Political positionLeft-wing
ReligionSunni Islam

The Movement for Democracy in Algeria (French: Mouvement pour la démocratie en Algérie) (MDA) was a political party in Algeria. It is moderately Islamist and boycotted the 2002 elections.

History and profile

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The Movement for Democracy in Algeria was founded by Ahmed Ben Bella in 1982.[3] However, the party was legalized in 1990.[3] In 1995, the party was one of the signatories of the Sant'Egidio platform, an attempt of many major opposition parties to put an end to the Algerian Civil War, which was brokered by the Italian Catholic Community of Sant'Egidio.

References

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  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 21 May 2023. Retrieved 21 May 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ Mouvement pour la démocratie en Algérie - Recueil de quelques écrits du MDA
  3. ^ a b Augustus Richard Norton (2001). Civil society in the Middle East. 2 (2001). BRILL. p. 83. ISBN 90-04-10469-0. Archived from the original on 21 May 2024. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
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