Abdallah Djaballah

Saad Abdallah Djaballah
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Born	May 2, 1956 Skikda, Algeria
Political party	Movement for National Reform
Religion	Islam

Saad Abdallah Djaballah (Arabic: سعد عبدالله جابالله‎, born May 2, 1956 in Skikda) is an Algerian politician and leader of the Movement for National Reform ^[1] (Ḥarakat al-Iṣlāḥ al-Waṭaniyy, also known as the MRN and El-Islah), an Islamist political party that he led in a breakout from the Islamic Renaissance Party (al-Nahda), which he had created but lost control over.^[2] Djaballah stood for the presidency twice, in 1999 and 2004. In the former contest, he withdrew along with all other opposition candidates just hours before voting commenced.^[1] In 2004, he came in third place in the elections, with about 5 percent of the vote.^[3]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Algeria's presidential challengers". BBC. 2004-04-09. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3511120.stm. Retrieved 2006-11-16. 
2. ^ Dillman, Bradford (2002-06-11). "Algeria’s Parliamentary Elections: Lessons for US Policy in the Arab World". Middle East Institute. Archived from the original on 2006-11-09. http://web.archive.org/web/20061109061358/http://www.mideasti.org/articles/doc54.html. Retrieved 2006-11-16. 
3. ^ Volpi, Frédéric. "Algeria 2004: Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose". Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE). http://www.fride.org/File/ViewFile.aspx?FileId=272. Retrieved 2006-11-16. 

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Name	Djaballah, Abdallah
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Date of birth	1956-05-02
Place of birth	Skikda, Algeria
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