Algeria constitution amendments

Algerian constitution was first voted 1963 after the Independence. It declared Algeria a one-party state ruled by the former resistance movement, the National Liberation Front (FLN).

• This constitution was suspended by the military coup d’état of 1965. President Houari Boumedienne issued a second constitution in 1976, emphasising the importance of socialism and –formally- resorting political institutions to their primacy over the military establishment.
•  In 1986 Boumedienne’s successor Chadli Bendjedid modified the constitution to allow free-market reforms. The 1988 October Riots, brought in a new constitution in 1989. It introduced a multi-party system, removing the FLN from its role as leading party, and mentioned freedom of expression. A 1992 military coup introduced a state of emergency, which suspended parts of the new constitution, as violence broke out over political conflict.
•  In 1996, the constitution was further modified. It banned political parties on religious linguistic or ethnic basis.
• In 2001 the constitution was changed again to consider Tamazirt a national language along with Arabic.
• A further proposed revision, believed to be intended to remove the presidential term limit (Article 74) to allow the President to run for office indefinitely.