Movement for Democracy in Algeria explained

Movement for Democracy in Algeria
Native Name:الحركة من أجل الديموقراطية في الجزائر
Mouvement pour la démocratie en Algérie
Country:Algeria
Founder:Ahmed Ben Bella
Colorcode:
  1. 038927
Foundation:28 April 1982
Legalised:1990
Banned:10 June 1997[1]
Position:Left-wing
Religion:Sunni Islam
Ideology:Moderate Islamism
Islamic Socialism
Progressivism
Arab nationalism
Algerian nationalism
Pan-Maghrebism[2]
Anti-Zionism

The Movement for Democracy in Algeria (MDA) was a political party in Algeria. It is moderately Islamist and boycotted the 2002 elections.

History and profile

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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Archived copy . 21 May 2023 . 21 May 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230521165714/https://www.liberation.fr/planete/1997/06/12/algerie-l-ancien-parti-de-ben-bella-dissous_207209/?outputType=amp . live .
  2. Mouvement pour la démocratie en Algérie - Recueil de quelques écrits du MDA
  3. Book: Augustus Richard Norton. Civil society in the Middle East. 2 (2001). 13 September 2014. 2001. BRILL. 90-04-10469-0. 83. 21 May 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240521151515/https://books.google.com/books?id=k61qG1OlLl4C&pg=PA83#v=onepage&q&f=false. live.