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El-Infitah Movement

political party in Algeria

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 24, 2024
Entity authorityQ5350660
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The El-Infitah Movement (French: Mouvement El Infitah; Arabic: حركة الإنفتاح; lit. 'Opening Movement') is a minor political party in Algeria, led by Naima Farhi.

History and profile

The party was established as the Algerian National Youth Movement in 1997. It was renamed as El Infitah before the 2007 elections. It has a nationalist and progressive political leaning. Its president is Omar Bouacha and the secretary general is Naima Farhi.

In the 17 May 2007 People's National Assembly elections, the party won 3 out of 389 seats.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997, 2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1997. The account is most persuasive where El-Infitah, Movement and political can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as political party in Algeria. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from El-Infitah Movement” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.