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with numerous political parties, in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments. The Algerian Constitution (as of 1996) bans the formation of any party "founded on a religious, linguistic, racial, sex, corporatist or regional basis" or violating "the fundamental liberties, the fundamental values and components of the national identity, the national unity, the security and integrity of the national territory, the independence of the country and the People’s sovereignty as well as the democratic and republican nature of the State." In Arabic, French, and English, major Algerian political parties are typically referred to by the three or four initials of their French names. (The

Movement of Society for Peace The Movement of Society for Peace ( ar, حركة مجتمع السلم, Harakat mujtamaâ as-Silm; ), sometimes known by its shortened form Hamas () is an Islamic party in Algeria, led by Mahfoud Nahnah until his death in 2003. Its current le ...

, which uses an Arabic acronym, is an exception.) In formal contexts, however, their full names are used.

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Parliamentary parties after 2021 election

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french: Front de libération nationale
ber, Tirni n Weslelli Aɣelnaw , FLN ,

Abdelaziz Bouteflika Abdelaziz Bouteflika (; ar, عبد العزيز بوتفليقة, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Būtaflīqa ; 2 March 1937 – 17 September 2021) was an Algerian politician and diplomat who served as President of Algeria from 1999 to his resignation in 2019 ...

Big tent A big tent party, or catch-all party, is a term used in reference to a political party's policy of permitting or encouraging a broad spectrum of views among its members. This is in contrast to other kinds of parties, which defend a determined i ...

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Centre Center or centre may refer to: Mathematics * Center (geometry), the middle of an object * Center (algebra), used in various contexts ** Center (group theory) ** Center (ring theory) * Graph center, the set of all vertices of minimum eccentri ...

centre-left Centre-left politics lean to the left on the left–right political spectrum but are closer to the centre than other left-wing politics. Those on the centre-left believe in working within the established systems to improve social justice. The ...

Social democracy Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocating economic and social interventions to promote s ...

Algerian nationalism Algerian nationalism is pride in the Algerian identity and culture. It has been historically infuenced by the conflicts between the conflicts between the Deylik of Algiers and European countries, the French conquest of Algeria and the subsequen ...

Social liberalism Social liberalism (german: Sozialliberalismus, es, socioliberalismo, nl, Sociaalliberalisme), also known as new liberalism in the United Kingdom, modern liberalism, or simply liberalism in the contemporary United States, left-liberalism ...

Third Way The Third Way is a centrist political position that attempts to reconcile right-wing and left-wing politics by advocating a varying synthesis of centre-right economic policies with centre-left social policies. The Third Way was born from ...

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ar, حركة مجتمع السلم, Harakat Mujtamaâ as-Silm
french: Mouvement de la société pour la paix
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Hims , , Right-wing
to far-right , Sunni Islamism

Islamic democracy There exist a number of perspectives on the relationship of Islam and democracy among Islamic political theorists, the general Muslim public, and Western authors. In 2021, a number of Muslim majority countries are Islamic and secular democra ...

Pan-Islamism

Economic liberalism Economic liberalism is a political and economic ideology that supports a market economy based on individualism and private property in the means of production. Adam Smith is considered one of the primary initial writers on economic liberali ...

Social conservatism
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Democratic National Rally The Democratic National Rally ( ar, التجمع الوطني الديمقراطي, french: Rassemblement National Démocratique, RND) is a political party in Algeria. The party held its Second Congress on 15–17 May 2003. History The RND ...

ar, التجمع الوطني الديموقراطي, at-Tadschammuʿ al-Waṭanī ad-Dīmuqrāṭī
french: Rassemblement national démocratique
ber, Agraw aɣelnaw amagday , RND , ,

centre-right Centre-right politics lean to the right of the political spectrum, but are closer to the centre. From the 1780s to the 1880s, there was a shift in the Western world of social class structure and the economy, moving away from the nobility and ...

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ar, جبهة المستقبل
french: Front El Moustakbal , FM , ,

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ar, حركة البناء الوطني, Harakat al-Bina' al-Watanii
french: Mouvement El-Bina , El-Bina , Abdelkader Bengrina , Right-wing ,

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ar, حزب صوت الشعب
french: Parti La Voix du peuple , PVP , Lamine Osmani , , , , , , - ! style="background-color: #5C9ED0" , ,
ar, جبهة الحكم الراشد
french: Front de la bonne gouvernance , FBG , Aissa Belhadi , , , , , , - ! style="background-color: " , ,

Justice and Development Front The Justice and Development Front, sometimes translated as the Front for Justice and Development (; ), is an Islamist political party in Algeria led by Abdallah Djaballah. Djaballah is the former leader of the Movement for National Reform The ...

ar, جبهة العدالة والتنمية
french: Front pour la justice et le développement , FJD ,

Abdallah Djaballah Saad Abdallah Djaballah ( ar, سعد عبدالله جاب الله (born on May 2, 1956) in Skikda) is an Algerian politician and leader of the Movement for National Reform (''Ḥarakat al-Iṣlāḥ al-Waṭaniyy'', also known as the ''MRN'' and ...

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ar, حزب الحرية والعدالة
french: Parti de la liberté et de la justice , PLJ , Djamel Benziadi , Right-wing ,

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ar, حزب الفجر الجديد
french: Parti el Fadjr el Jadid , PFJ , Tahar Benbaïbeche , , , , , , - ! style="background-color: #337DBE" , ,
ar, جيل جديد, Jil Jadid
french: Jil Jadid , JJ , ,

Centre-left Centre-left politics lean to the left on the left–right political spectrum but are closer to the centre than other left-wing politics. Those on the centre-left believe in working within the established systems to improve social justice. The ...

, , , , - ! style="background-color: #87C644" , , New Algeria Front
ar, جبهة الجزائر الجديدة
french: Front de l’Algérie nouvelle , FAN , Djamel Benabdessalem , , , , , , - ! style="background-color: #128B3C" , ,
ar, حزب الكرامة, Hizb el-Karama
french: Parti Dignité , PD , Mohamed Eddaoui , ,

Nasserism Nasserism ( ) is an Arab nationalist and Arab socialist political ideology based on the thinking of Gamal Abdel Nasser, one of the two principal leaders of the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and Egypt's second President. Spanning the domestic an ...

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Algerian National Front The Algerian National Front (french: Front National Algérien; ar, الجبهة الوطنية الجزائرية, Jabhah al-Waṭaniyyah al-Jazā'iriyyah) is a right-wing political party in Algeria. The leader of the party is Moussa Touati. ...

ar, الجبهة الوطنية الجزائرية, Jabhah al-Waṭaniyyah al-Jazā'iriyyah
french: Front national algérien , FNA , , Right-wing , National conservatism , , , , - ! style="background-color: " , ,

Socialist Forces Front , Berber: Tirni Iɣallen Inemlayen (RƔN) , logo = Socialist Forces Front.png , leader1_title = First National Secretary , leader1_name = Youcef Aouchiche , leader2_title = , leader2_name = , foundation = ...

ar, جبهة القوى الاشتراكية
french: Front des forces socialistes
ber, Tirni Iɣallen Inemlayen , FFS
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Algerianism

Berberism Berberism or Amazighism is a Berber political-cultural movement of ethnic, geographic, or cultural nationalism, started mainly in Kabylia (Algeria) and in Morocco, later spreading to the rest of the Berber communities in the Maghreb region of N ...

Secularism Secularism is the principle of seeking to conduct human affairs based on secular, naturalistic considerations. Secularism is most commonly defined as the separation of religion from civil affairs and the state, and may be broadened to a sim ...

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Parties that boycotted the last elections

Other parties

* Algerian National Party (الحزب الوطني الجزائري, El-Hizb El-Watani El-Djazairy) * Ahd 54 *

Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism The Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism (french: Parti Algérien pour la Démocratie et le Socialisme, PADS) is a Communist party in Algeria. When in 1993, during the Algerian Civil War, Ettehadi was realigned as a democratic movement resi ...

(Parti Algérien pour la Démocratie et le Socialisme) *

Algerian Popular Movement The Algerian Popular Movement (french: Mouvement Populaire Algérien; ber, Amussu Agdudan Azzayri; ar, الحركة الشعبية الجزائرية) is a social democratic Berber political party in Algeria. The party, which had been previously ...

(MPA) * Democratic and Social Movement (MDS) * El Fadjr El Djadid * The Cause (Essabil) *

National Republican Alliance The National Republican Alliance ( ar, التحالف الوطني الجمهوري; french: Alliance Nationale Républicaine, ANR) is a minor Algerian political party led by ex-Prime Minister Redha Malek and founded on 5 May 1995.

(ANR) *

Natural Law Party The Natural Law Party (NLP) is a transnational party founded in 1992 on "the principles of Transcendental Meditation", the laws of nature, and their application to all levels of government. At its peak, it was active in up to 74 countries; it con ...

(Parti de la Loi Naturelle) * Socialist Workers' Party *

National Party for Solidarity and Development The National Party for Solidarity and Development (''Parti National pour la Solidarité et le Developpement''; PNSD) is a minor political party in Algeria. History and profile The National Party for Solidarity and Development was established in ...

(PNSD) * Workers' Party (PT)

Parties not legally recognized

* Wafaa * Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party

Illegal parties

Hizb ut-Tahrir Hizb ut-Tahrir (Arabicحزب التحرير (Translation: Party of Liberation) is an international, political organization which describes its ideology as Islam, and its aim the re-establishment of the Islamic Khilafah (Caliphate) to resume Isl ...

* FIS:

Islamic Salvation Front The Islamic Salvation Front ( ar, الجبهة الإسلامية للإنقاذ, al-Jabhah al-Islāmiyah lil-Inqādh; french: Front Islamique du Salut, FIS) was an Islamist political party in Algeria. The party had two major leaders representi ...