Saad Abdallah Djaballah | |
Birth Date: | 2 May 1956 |
Birth Place: | Skikda, Algeria |
Party: | Justice and Development Party |
Saad Abdallah Djaballah (Arabic: سعد عبدالله جاب الله (born on May 2, 1956) in Skikda) is an Algerian politician and leader of the Movement for National Reform[1] (Ḥarakat al-Iṣlāḥ al-Waṭaniyy, also known as the MRN and El-Islah), an Islamist political party that he led in a breakout from the Islamic Renaissance Party (al-Nahda), which he had created but lost control over.[2] Djaballah stood for the presidency twice, in 1999 and 2004. In 1999, he withdrew along with all the other opposition candidates just hours before voting began. In 2004, he came in third place in the election, with about 5 percent of the vote.[3]
In 2011, Djaballah formed the Justice and Development Front.[4] [5]