Future Front

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Future Front
جبهة المستقبل
PresidentFateh Boutbig
FounderAbdelaziz Belaïd
Founded9 February 2012; 14 years ago (2012-02-09)
Split fromNational Liberation Front (FLN)
HeadquartersAlgiers
IdeologyAlgerian nationalism
Political positionCentre
People's National Assembly
48 / 407
Council of the Nation
6 / 144
Website
http://frontelmoustakbal.dz/[dead link]

The Future Front (Arabic: جبهة المستقبل, romanizedJabhat al-Mustaqbal) is an Algerian political party.

History

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The Future Front was founded on February 9, 2012 after its leader, Abdelaziz Belaïd (fr), split from the National Liberation Front (FLN). It is a centrist party, dominated by youth and holds a conciliatory approach towards the ruling regime.[1] The party won two seats in the 2012 Algerian parliamentary elections and 14 seats in the 2017 elections.[2] Its presidential candidate and leader of the party, Abdelaziz Belaïd, came third in the 2014 Algerian presidential election with 3.36% of the vote. In the 2019 presidential elections, his support rose to 6.67% but he only came fifth in the race.

In 2019, during the transitional period after the resignation of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the Future Front called for the inclusion of "all the fringes of society" in the process of the presidential elections, so that those elections may be "transparent and regular".[3] In June 2020, a representative of the party, Samir Chaabna, was appointed as Deputy Minister of the PM in charge of connections with Algerians abroad.[4]

In the June 2021 elections, despite receiving fewer votes than in previous elections, the party made significant gains in its representation, going from 14 seats in the 462-seat parliament to 48 seats in the new 407-seat parliament, making it the 4th largest party in the Algerian People's National Assembly.[5]

Electoral history

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Presidential elections

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Election Party candidate Votes % Result
2014 Abdelaziz Belaïd 328,030 3.06 Lost Red XN
2019 568,000 6.67 Lost Red XN

People's National Assembly elections

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Election Party leader Votes % Seats Position
2012 Abdelaziz Belaïd 174,706 Increase 1.87
2 / 462
Increase 18th
2017 265,564 Increase 4.11
14 / 462
Increase 5th
2021 153,987 Decrease 3.34
48 / 407
Increase 4th

References

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Future Front - Official Website at the Wayback Machine (archived 13 December 2019)