The Wafaa is an illegal
political party
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...
in
Algeria
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The party was founded by
Ahmed Taleb Ibrahimi
Dr. Ahmed Taleb Ibrahimi ( ar, أحمد طالب الإبراهيمي) (born 5 January 1932) is an Algerian politician and intellectual.
He is the son of Islamic theologian and renowned scholar Bachir Ibrahimi, and served in multiple ministerial ...
, son of
Bashir al-Ibrahimi and several times a minister in the
Boumédiène and
Bendjedid eras. It was banned in
2000
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for alleged links to the outlawed
Islamic Salvation Front
The Islamic Salvation Front ( ar, الجبهة الإسلامية للإنقاذ, al-Jabhah al-Islāmiyah lil-Inqādh; french: Front Islamique du Salut, FIS) was an Islamist political party in Algeria. The party had two major leaders representi ...
(FIS).
References
Banned political parties in Algeria
Political parties in Algeria
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