The Algerian Popular Movement (french: Mouvement Populaire Algérien; ber, Amussu Agdudan Azzayri; ar, الحركة الشعبية الجزائرية) is a
social democratic
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 soci ...
Berber
Berber or Berbers may refer to:
Ethnic group
* Berbers, an ethnic group native to Northern Africa
* Berber languages, a family of Afro-Asiatic languages
Places
* Berber, Sudan, a town on the Nile
People with the surname
* Ady Berber (1913–196 ...
political party
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...
in
Algeria
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. The party, which had been previously known since 2003 as the Union for Democracy and the Republic (UDR, ''Union pour la Démocratie et la République''), was re-founded in February 2012. In the 17 May 2012
People's National Assembly
The People's National Assembly ( ar, المجلس الشعبي الوطني, al-Majlis al-Sha'abi al-Watani; ber, Asqamu Aɣerfan Aɣelnaw; french: Assemblée populaire nationale), abbreviated APN, is the lower house of the Algerian Parliament ...
elections
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Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operate ...
, the party won 2.17% of the vote and 7 of the 389 seats.
References
2012 establishments in Algeria
Political parties established in 2012
Political parties in Algeria
Social democratic parties in Africa
Socialist parties in Algeria
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