Bachir Ben Mohamed Abdelouahab ( ar, بشير بن محمد عبد الوهاب, December 2, 1897, Miliana - 1978,

Algiers Algiers ( ; ar, الجزائر, al-Jazāʾir; ber, Dzayer, script=Latn; french: Alger, ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria. The city's population at the 2008 Census was 2,988,145Census 14 April 2008: Office National des Statistiques ...

) was an Algerian politician and medical doctor. He practiced medicine in Blida, Zaouia street since March 1924, where he was elected municipal councillor and general councillor. He was a member of the pro-French Muslim Party for Progress (PMPRO). In 1945, he was elected to the French

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, from the Muslim non-citizens constituency of the Algiers department. He was one three candidates on the list of the

Union for Social Progress The Union for Social Progress (french: Liste d'union et de progrès social) was a list that contested the Algiers Muslim non-citizen constituency in the 1945 French Constituent Assembly election. The list was close to the French Section of the Work ...

elected from Algiers. In the Constituent Assembly he was included in the Interior, Algeria and General, Department and Municipal Administration Commission and in the Family, Population and Public Health Commission. He voted in favour of the Félix Gouin ministry formed on January 29, 1946. Aware of contradictions within the Muslim community, he resigned from the Constituent Assembly on February 19, 1946. His seat was filled by Abderahmane Fares, who had been the fourth candidate on the list of the Union for Social Progress.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Abdelouahab, Bachir 1897 births 1978 deaths People from Miliana People of French Algeria Union and Social Progress List politicians Members of the Constituent Assembly of France (1945) Algerian physicians 20th-century physicians