Louisa Hanoune

Louisa Hanoune ( Arabic لويزة حنون, Born April 7, 1954 in Chekfa , Jijel Province ) is an Algerian lawyer and politician . She is the founding chairwoman of the Labor Party .

Life

Louisa Hanoune was born as the daughter of mountain farmers from Chekfa and fled with her family to Annaba after their home was bombed by the French colonial army during the Algerian War of 1954–1962. She was the first woman in her family to go to school. In 1962, the year of Algerian independence, she started school. In 1973 she began studying law at Annaba University .

politics

Before political parties were legalized in 1988, Hanoune was arrested several times as a dissident by the government. She was imprisoned in 1981 after joining the Trotskyist Social Workers' Organization and after the October 1988 riots - which put an end to the one-party rule of the National Liberation Front . Subsequently, in 1990 she founded the Workers' Party ( Parti des Travailleurs , PT). In the 2004 election she was the first woman in the Arab world to run for president.

During the Algerian civil war in the 1990s Hanoune was one of the few members of the opposition in the Algerian Parliament and - despite the secular values of their Labor Party - an opponent of the cancellation policy ( eradication ) of the government towards Islamists. In January 1995 she signed the “Sant'Egidio Platform” together with representatives of other opposition parties, including the Islamic Salvation Front , the radical Islamist party whose dissolution led to the outbreak of civil war by means of a military decree.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Louisa Hanoune, la dame de fer algérienne , Cherif Ouazani, Jeune Afrique , December 22, 2009
2. ^ Algeria's presidential challengers: Louisa Hanoune at BBC News, April 9, 2004
3. ↑ Bernhard Schmid , Algeria, Frontline State in Global War? Neoliberalism, Social Movements and Islamist Ideology in a North African Country. Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-019-6 , pp. 80, 177