Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party of Algeria
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The Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party of Algeria (french: Parti Baath arabe socialiste d'Algérie, ar, حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي في الجزائر ''Hizb Al-Ba'ath Al-Arabi Al-Ishtiraki fy Aljeza'ir''), is a
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 ideological or p ...
in
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. It is the Algerian regional branch of the Iraqi-led Ba'ath Party. It is led by Ahmed Choutri. The party is currently banned, and Choutri was forced to flee to Iraq during the 1990s because of governmental repression against the Algerian Ba'ath movement. The party sympathised with the Iraqi ba'athist insurgency and supported
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri ( ar, عزة إبراهيم الدوري, Izzat Ibrāhīm ad-Dūrī; 1 July 1942 – 25 October 2020) was an Iraqi politician and Army Field Marshal. He served as Vice Chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council u ...
, leader of the Iraqi branch. Following his return to Algeria in 2003, Choutri wrote ''The Baathist Faith of President Saddam''.


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