The HAMAS Movement. A Moderate Face of Algerian Islamism

Author(s):
Yacine, T.
Published
1998
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

Abstract

The legislative elections of June 1997 have enabled an apparently new political map to be drawn up. From these elections emerged a coalition government composed of ministers representing the RND, the FLN and the MSP (Mouvement de la SociŽtŽ pour la Paix [Movement of Society for Peace], formerly Hamas, the moderate Islamic political tendency described in more detail below). These three parties constitute the current majority in the Assembly Ð a majority which gives President Zeroual a degree of room to manoeuvre.

Algeria
Date issued
1998
Language
English
Publisher
ISIM, Leiden
Is part of
ISIM Newsletter (1998), Vol. 1, no. 1, p. 10-10
hdl
1887/16758