Abdallah Djaballah
Algerian politician
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Saad Abdallah Djaballah (Arabic: سعد عبدالله جاب الله, romanized: Saʻd Allāh Jāb Allāh, 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.[1][2] Djaballah ran for the presidency twice, in 1999 and 2004. In 1999, he withdrew along with other opposition candidates just hours before voting began.[1] In 2004, he finished third in the election, receiving about 5 percent of the vote.[3] In 2011, Djaballah founded the Justice and Development Front.[4][5]
