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The Islamic Renaissance Movement (, ''Ḥarakat An-Nahḑa Al-Islāmiyya''; , MRI) is a moderate Islamist
political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ...
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Algeria Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...
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History

The party was established in autumn 1990 when the Constantine-based association Jamiyat al-Nahda was transformed into a political party. Jamiyat al-Nahda had been established in 1988 by Abdallah Djaballah, and he decided to form the MRI after the
Islamic Salvation Front The Islamic Salvation Front (; , FIS) was an Islamist political party in Algeria. The party had two major leaders representing its two bases of its support; Abbassi Madani appealed to pious small businessmen, and Ali Belhadj appealed to the a ...
rejected calls for an Islamic alliance.Frank Tachau (1994) ''Political parties of the Middle East and North Africa'', Greenwood Press, pp44–45 Its foundation was also a response to the FIS claim to hold a monopoly on Islamist politics. In the 1991 parliamentary elections the party received 2.2% of the vote, failing to win a seat. The 1997 elections saw its vote share increase to 8.7%, resulting in it winning 34 of the 231 seats. However, it received just 0.6% of the vote in the 2002 elections, reducing it to a single seat. It recovered in the 2007 elections, receiving 3.4% of the vote and winning five of the 389 seats. The party contested the 2012 elections as part of the Islamist
Green Algeria Alliance The Green Algeria Alliance (; ), short Green Alliance was an Islamism, Islamist coalition of political parties, created on 7 March 2012 for the Algerian legislative election, 2012. It consisted of the Movement of Society for Peace (Hamas), Islami ...
. The alliance received 6.2% of the vote, winning 49 seats, down from the combined 60 won in 2007.


See also

* List of Islamic political parties


References

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