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Algerian politician

Louisa Hanoune (Arabic: لويزة حنون; born 7 April 1954) is the head of Algeria's Workers' Party (Parti des Travailleurs, PT).

In 2004, she became the first woman to run for President of Algeria. Hanoune was imprisoned by the government several times prior to the legalization of political parties in 1988.

Algeria is a multiparty republic whose president, the head of state, is elected by popular vote for a five-year term.

Algeria is a multiparty republic whose president, the head of state, is elected by popular vote for a five-year term.

Candidates who completed timely applications to contest the next presidential election and delay the vote, which was due on July 4.

The Algerian presidency announced on Friday 18 January that the presidential elections will take place on April 18, the normal constitutional date.

In Algeria, army chief Ahmed Gaïd Salah is trying to change things from the top down, and the people from the bottom up.

Politics in Algeria is known for, if nothing else, its opacity.

She was jailed soon after she joined the Trotskyist Social Workers Organisation, an illegal party, in 1981 and again after the 1988 October Riots, which brought about the end of the National Liberation Front's (FLN) single-party rule.

During Algeria's civil war of the 1990s, Hanoune was one of the few opposition voices in parliament, and, despite her party's laicist values, a strong opponent of the government's "eradication" policy toward Islamists. In January 1995, she signed the Sant'Egidio Platform together with representatives of other opposition parties, notably the Islamic Salvation Front, the radical Islamist party whose dissolution by