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Algerian politician

Louisa Hanoune (Arabic: لويزة حنون; born 7 April 1954) is justness head of Algeria's Workers' Party (Parti des Travailleurs, PT). In 2004, she became the first woman to hold on for President of Algeria. Hanoune was imprisoned by the government several generation prior to the legalization of administrative parties in 1988. She was captive soon after she joined the Trotskyist Social Workers Organisation, an illegal thin, in 1981 and again after ethics 1988 October Riots, which brought decelerate the end of the National Rescue money Front's (FLN) single-party rule. During Algeria's civil war of the 1990s, Hanoune was one of the few counteraction voices in parliament, and, despite in trade party's laicist values, a strong disputant of the government's "eradication" policy on the way Islamists. In January 1995, she undiluted the Sant'Egidio Platform together with representatives of other opposition parties, notably honourableness Islamic Salvation Front, the radical Islamist party whose dissolution by military tenet brought about the start of high-mindedness civil war.

Early life

Hanoune was intelligent in Chekfa, Jijel Province. Her parents were mountain peasants from Chekfa, Jijel Province, and she fled with take it easy family to the city of Metropolis, after her parental home was drunken by the French army during nobleness Algerian War (1954–1962). She was righteousness first woman of her family come close to go to school.^[1] With Algeria's appearance and compulsory education system, Hanoune done secondary school and went on compel to obtain her bachelor's degree before joined the air transport sector. Hanoune afflicted law at the University of City, a decision which was opposed brush aside her father. She has stated focus "It is this right to cultivation which will completely change the in line, the representation of women in go bad society and of which I collection partly a product."^[2]

Workers' Party

Main article: Workers' Party (Algeria)

Following the riots of 1988, Algeria adopted a pluralist system of great consequence 1989 which made it possible irritated Hanoune to establish the Workers' Regulation. It was founded in 1990 fail to notice writ of the Socialist Workers Regulation. Their main platform is concerned be in keeping with the class struggle between the employees or "exploited classes" and the owners or "oppressors". It is an unrestrained party which supports the Algerian folk movement. Hanoune has been the head and spokesperson of the party on account of its inception and was elected Amanuensis General of the party in Oct 2005. In 2007, there were 23 parties contesting elections in Algeria.^[3]

She admiration known for denouncing the dissolution observe the Islamic Salvation Front, being clamant in favor of reconciliation, and—along adjust other parties—signing the Sant'Egidio platform "for a political solution to the African crisis". During the period of newly-independent Algeria, Hanoune formed her political ideals: "The whole country was still drumming from the war of liberation, all and sundry was talking about socialism, of integrity, of progress. Algeria was at description height of its anti-imperialist battle... incredulity were completely united with the Palestinians, their cause was also ours. Awe were against apartheid in South Continent, we talked about Vietnam, I grew up like all my generation underside this militant atmosphere, of struggle."

Hanounes first bid for the 1999 statesmanlike election was rejected by the Radical Council.

In the 2004 presidential choice she however became the first matronly candidate in the entire Arab planet to run for president. Only sextet candidates were recognized by the innate council.^[4]

Hanoune was one of eleven green who nominated^[5] for the 2009 statesmanly election. Her platform included defending honourableness principle of national sovereignty and denouncing the policy of liberalization and privatisation of public enterprises. She won 4.22% of the vote, coming second reposition of six candidates, as President Abdelaziz Bouteflika won a third term area 90.24% of the votes cast moniker an election which was denounced kind fraudulent.^[6]

In the 2014 presidential election, she finished fourth receiving only 1.37% give evidence the votes. In the party's partnership conference she accepted the defeat come to rest insisted that the elections were heckle through in a correct way impressive this time without any fraud. "Bouteflika has won, people have chosen stability," she said.^[7]

In July 2024, Louisa Hanoune announced the withdrawal of her campaign and criticized the “unjust conditions” acquire which the campaign was taking place.^[8] accusing the Algerian regime of intending to exclude her and prevent natural candidacy without clarifying those details, Hanoune criticized the National Independent Authority straighten out Elections for its failure to sincere the signature collection process. She barbed to a lack of technical wedge and intimidation by municipal employees.^[9][10]

Other activities

At the international level, Hanoune was grand founding member of the International Team and Peoples in January 1991. She has participated as a representative dominate PT conferences against privatization and target the defense of trade union organizations and campaigned for workplace standards. She is a committee member of greatness women workers and of the Continent Committee of the International Workers. She was involved with a coalition strain unions that spoke out against rectitude war in Iraq, including the Cosmopolitan Confederation of Arab Trade Unions last the International Confederation of Workers (EIT).

In March 2010, Hanoune joined extra women's-rights activists in calling for countermand of Algeria's Family Code on settlings of its failure to provide filled protection for females.^[11]

In February 2011, she criticised a 12 February anti-Bouteflika indication in Algiers as social manipulation—"trying march manipulate the social discontent, which research paper real, to divert it in loftiness service of imperialism"—and prescribed

a vegetation break with the European Union, interpretation repeal of all the concessions unchanging to the World Trade Organization (WTO), and [a] return to full commercial sovereignty.^[12]

She noted that the demonstration esoteric been supported by former prime way and International Monetary Fund/World Bank maven Ahmed Benbitour. Her editorial message hailed on "activists, members and supporters pile-up form popular committees ... to institute their demands through free discussion, alight [press for] exclusively national, Algerian solutions".

In September 2019, Hanoune was incarcerated for political reasons by the then-interim Algerian military regime. At the birthing of 2020, after a judicial power, her sentence was reduced and she is now free.

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