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Article: Up front. (politics in Algeria)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- December 3, 1988
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HAVING almost had a revolution on the streets, Algeria's ruling Front de Liberation Nationale (FLN) has agreed to something short of a revolution in the way the country is run. After a month of the liveliest public politicking Algeria has known, the party agreed at its conference on November 27th-29th to the mildly liberalising reforms proposed by President Chadli Benjedid. The president is now muttering about a muki-party system.
Since the October riots, which killed 161 people, Algeria has been politically alive for the first time since it won its independence in 1962. Demonstrators have protested against the torture of young men during the riots, and called ...