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| | Middle East Report Online: Musical Chairs in Algeria , by Hugh Roberts |
 | | As for the MN, which, having won 34 seats under Djaballah's leadership in 1997, was then taken over by Lahbib Adami at Djaballah's expense, it has been destroyed, losing over two thirds of its vote and all but one of its seats, including Adami's seat at Khenchela. |
 | | The way Adami and his associates evicted the MN's founder and leader, Abdallah Djaballah, in 1998 in order to take the party into the coalition government left a bad impression, and the blatant lack of seriousness of Nahnah's rhetoric has been a kind of running gag for years. |
 | | In contrast, Djaballah's principled refusal to agree to cooptation as the MN's leader four years ago and his stubborn, almost heroic, insistence on starting all over again by founding a new party rather than compromise himself, has earned him real credit in the considerable element of opinion disposed to listen to Islamist themes. |
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