The Union for Democracy and Freedom (french: Union pour la Démocratie et les Libertés, UDL) was a political party in

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History

The UDL was established in 1989,L'Union pour la démocratie et les libertés communique
Le Matin, 13 February 2012 and ran in the first multi-party

elections An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operate ...

since independence in 1991, receiving just 0.1% of the vote and failing to win a seat. The 1997 elections saw the party increase its vote share to 0.5%, winning a single seat in the

People's National Assembly The People's National Assembly ( ar, المجلس الشعبي الوطني, al-Majlis al-Sha'abi al-Watani; ber, Asqamu Aɣerfan Aɣelnaw; french: Assemblée populaire nationale), abbreviated APN, is the lower house of the Algerian Parliament ...

.Elections held in 1997
IPU The party lost its seat in the 2002 elections. It supported 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 ...

in the 2004 presidential elections, before ceasing to function in 2005.

References

{{Algerian political parties Defunct political parties in Algeria Political parties established in 1989 1989 establishments in Algeria Political parties disestablished in 2005 2005 disestablishments in Algeria