Algeria has a multi-party system 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 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, 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 NameAbbr.LeaderPoliticalpositionIdeologyAPNCouncilAlliancesNational Liberation FrontFLNAbdelkrim BenmbarekCentre-leftSIMovement of Society for PeaceMSPHimsRight-wingMuslimBrotherhoodDemocratic National RallyRNDCentre tocentre-rightCDIFuture FrontFMFateh BoutbigCentreAlgerian nationalism National Construction MovementEl-BinaAbdelkader BengrinaRight-wingIslamic democracyAlgerian nationalism Voice of the PeoplePVPLamine Osmani FBGAissa BelhadiJustice and Development FrontFJDAbdallah DjaballahRight-wingPLJDjamel BenziadiRight-wingIslamic democracy New Fajr PartyPFJTahar BenbaïbecheRight-wing New GenerationJJSoufiane DjilaliCentre-leftSocial democracy New Algeria FrontFANDjamel BenabdessalemCentre Dignity PartyPDMohamed Eddaoui Algerian National FrontFNARight-wingNational conservatism
Parties that boycotted the last elections NameAbbr.LeaderPoliticalpositionIdeologyAPNCouncilAlliancesSocialist Forces FrontFFSRƔNCentre-leftPA, SIMovement for Democracy in AlgeriaMDALeft-wingDemocratic and Social MovementMDSHamid FerhiLeft-wingFDARally for Culture and DemocracyRCDCentre to Centre-leftFDASocialist Workers PartyPSTFar-leftFDA, FIWorkers' PartyPTLouisa HanouneFar-leftFDA, OJR
Other parties Algerian National Party (الحزب الوطني الجزائري, El-Hizb El-Watani El-Djazairy) Ahd 54 Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism (Parti Algérien pour la Démocratie et le Socialisme) Algerian Popular Movement (MPA) The Cause (Essabil) National Republican Alliance (ANR) Natural Law Party (Parti de la Loi Naturelle) National Party for Solidarity and Development (PNSD)
Parties not legally recognized Wafaa Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party
Illegal parties Hizb ut-Tahrir FIS: Islamic Salvation Front (Front Islamique du Salut) Movement for the Self-Determination of Kabylia
See also Politics of Algeria Lists of political parties
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