Constituent Assembly elections were held in

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on 20 September 1962, the first legislative elections since independence in July. The Assembly was to have a one-year mandate to draw up and promulgate a

constitution A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organisation or other type of Legal entity, entity and commonly determine how that entity is to be governed. When ...

. A single list of 196 National Liberation Front candidates was put to voters to approve, 180 of which were Arabs and 16 of which were of European origin. A reported 99.6% voted in favour, with a turnout of 83.8%.Nohlen, D, Krennerich, M & Thibaut, B (1999) ''Elections in Africa: A data handbook'', p55 The constitution was approved in a

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in September 1963, and the mandate of the Assembly was extended by a year in accordance with article 77. However, President

Ahmed Ben Bella Ahmed Ben Bella ( ar, أحمد بن بلّة '; 25 December 1916 – 11 April 2012) was an Algerian politician, soldier and socialist revolutionary who served as the head of government of Algeria from 27 September 1962 to 15 September 1963 an ...

froze the Assembly's activities and assumed full powers on 3 October 1963.Algeria, State Institutions
European Institute for Research on Mediterranean and Euro-Arab Cooperation

Results

References

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