Abdallah Djaballah

{{Short description|Algerian politician}}

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| name = Saad Abdallah Djaballah

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1956|5|2}}

| birth_place = Skikda, Algeria

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| party = Justice and Development Party

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Saad Abdallah Djaballah ({{langx|ar|سعد عبدالله جاب الله}}, born May 2, 1956, in Skikda) is an Algerian politician and leader of the Movement for National Reform (Ḥarakat al-Iṣlāḥ al-Waṭaniyy, also known as the MRN and El-Islah), an Islamist political party he led following a split from the Islamic Renaissance Party (al-Nahda), which he had founded but lost control of.{{cite news | title = Algeria's presidential challengers| publisher = BBC | date = 2004-04-09 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3511120.stm | access-date = 2006-11-16 }}{{cite web | last = Dillman | first = Bradford | title = Algeria's Parliamentary Elections: Lessons for US Policy in the Arab World | publisher = Middle East Institute | date = 2002-06-11 | url = http://www.mideasti.org/articles/doc54.html | access-date = 2006-11-16 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061109061358/http://www.mideasti.org/articles/doc54.html | archive-date = 2006-11-09 | url-status = dead }} Djaballah ran for the presidency twice, in 1999 and 2004. In 1999, he withdrew along with other opposition candidates just hours before voting began. In 2004, he finished third in the election, receiving about 5 percent of the vote.{{cite web | last = Volpi | first = Frédéric | title = Algeria 2004: Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose | publisher = Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE) | url = http://www.fride.org/File/ViewFile.aspx?FileId=272 | access-date = 2006-11-16 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060818075433/http://www.fride.org/File/ViewFile.aspx?FileId=272 | archive-date = 2006-08-18 | url-status = dead }} In 2011, Djaballah founded the Justice and Development Front.{{Cite web|title=Front for Justice & Development / El Adala|url=http://www.opemam.org/node/437?language=en|access-date=2020-12-21|website=Observatorio Electoral|language=en}}{{Cite news|last=Chikhi|first=Lamine|date=2011-08-18|title=Algeria "not immune to Arab spring revolt"|language=en|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-algeria-arabspring-islamist-idUSTRE77H2LE20110818|access-date=2020-12-21}}