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History

The Future Front was founded on February 9, 2012 after its leader, , split from the National Liberation Front (FLN). It is a centrist party, dominated by youth and holds a conciliatory approach towards the ruling regime. The party won two seats in the 2012 Algerian parliamentary elections and 14 seats in the
2017 elections The following elections occurred in 2017. Africa *2017 Somali presidential election 8 February 2017 *2017 Gambian parliamentary election 6 April 2017 * 2017 Algerian legislative election 4 May 2017 *2017 Lesotho general election 3 June 2017 *20 ...
. Its presidential candidate and leader of the party, Abdelaziz Belaïd, came third in the
2014 Algerian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Algeria on 17 April 2014. Incumbent President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was re-elected with 82% of the vote. Issues in the campaign included a desire for domestic stability after the bloody civil war of the 1990s, t ...
with 3.36% of the vote. In the 2019 presidential elections, his support rose to 6.67% but he only came fifth in the race. In 2019, during the transitional period after the resignation of President
Abdelaziz Bouteflika Abdelaziz Bouteflika (; ar, عبد العزيز بوتفليقة, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Būtaflīqa ; 2 March 1937 – 17 September 2021) was an Algerian politician and diplomat who served as President of Algeria from 1999 to his resignation in 2019 ...
, the Future Front called for the inclusion of "all the fringes of society" in the process of the presidential elections, so that those elections may be "transparent and regular". In June 2020, a representative of the party, Samir Chaabna, was appointed as Deputy Minister of the PM in charge of connections with Algerians abroad. In the June 2021 elections, despite receiving less votes than in previous elections, the party made significant gains in its representation, going from 14 seats in the 462-seat parliament to 48 seats in the new 407-seat parliament, making it the 4th largest party in the Algerian People's National Assembly. Algeria's political system is considered "not free" by Freedom House, with the country's elections being known to be neither fair nor free and fraught with irregularities.


Electoral history


Presidential elections


People's National Assembly elections


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External links


Future Front - Official Facebook Page
(in Arabic)
Future Front - Official YouTube Channel
(in Arabic) {{Political parties in Algeria Political parties in Algeria Algerian nationalism Political parties established in 2012 2012 establishments in Algeria