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Government
Long-form name: Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria.
Type: republic.
Capital: Algiers.
Administrative divisions: 31 provinces (wilayat, singular--wilaya);
Adrar, Alger, Annaba, Batna, Bechar, Bejaia, Biskra, Blida,
Bouira, Constantine, Djelfa, El Asnam, Guelma, Jijel, Laghouat,
Mascara, Medea, Mostaganem, M'sila, Oran, Ouargla, Oum el
Bouaghi, Saida, Setif, Sidi Bel Abbes, Skikda, Tamanrasset,
Tebessa, Tiaret, Tizi Ouzou, Tlemcen; note--there may now
be 48 provinces with El Asnam abolished, and the addition
of 18 new provinces named Ain Delfa, Ain Temouchent, Bordjbou,
Boumerdes, Chlef, El Bayadh, El Oued, El Tarf, Illizi, Jijel,
Khenchela, Mila, Naama, Relizane, Souk Ahras, Tindouf, Tipaza,
Tissemsilt.
Independence: 5 July 1962 (from France).
Constitution: 19 November 1976, effective 22 November 1976.
Legal system: socialist, based on French and Islamic law;
judicial review of legislative acts in ad hoc Constitutional
Council composed of various public officials, including
several Supreme Court justices; has not accepted compulsory
ICJ jurisdiction.
National holiday: Anniversary of the Revolution, 1 November
(1954).
Executive branch: president, prime minister, Council of
Ministers (cabinet).
Legislative branch: unicameral National People's Assembly
(Assemblee Nationale Populaire).
Judicial branch: Supreme Court (Cour Supreme).
Leaders:
Chief of State--President Chadli BENDJEDID (since
7 February 1979);
Head of Government--Prime Minister Mouloud HAMROUCHE (since
9 September 1989).
Political parties and leaders: National Liberation Front
(FLN), Col. Chadli Bendjedid, chairman; Abdelhamid Mehri,
secretary general; the government established a multiparty
system in September 1989 and as of 1 February 1990 19 legal
parties existed.
Suffrage: universal at age 18.
Elections:
President--last held on 22 December 1988 (next
to be held December 1993); results--President Bendjedid
was reelected without opposition;
People's National Assembly--last held on 26 February 1987
(next to be held by February 1992); results--FLN was the
only party; seats--(281 total) FLN 281; note--the government
has promised to hold multiparty elections (municipal and
wilaya) in June 1990, the first in Algerian history.
Communists: 400 (est.); Communist party banned 1962.
Member of: AfDB, AIOEC, Arab League, ASSIMER, CCC, FAO,
G-77, GATT (de facto), IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, IDA, IDB--Islamic
Development Bank, IFAD, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTELSAT, ILZSG,
INTERPOL, IOOC, ITU, NAM, OAPEC, OAU, OIC, OPEC, UN, UNESCO,
UPU, WHO, WIPO, WMO.
Diplomatic representation: Ambassador Abderrahmane BENSID;
Chancery at 2118 Kalorama Road NW, Washington DC 20008;
telephone (202) 328-5300; US--Ambassador Christopher W.
S. ROSS; Embassy at 4 Chemin Cheich Bachir Brahimi, Algiers
(mailing address is B. P. Box 549, Alger-Gare, 16000 Algiers);
telephone [213] (2) 601-425 or 255, 186; there is a US Consulate
in Oran.
Flag: two equal vertical bands of green (hoist side) and
white with a red five-pointed star within a red crescent;
the crescent, star, and color green are traditional symbols
of Islam (the state religion).