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 | | The decision to choose the prominent diplomat by a new FLN executive of 121 members, themselves elected by the FLN national council, came as no surprise when it was announced late Tuesday, delegates said. |
 | | The FLN until the 1980s was the sole ruling party in the north African country after it led a liberation war to win independence from France in 1962, but has been overhauled several times since. |
 | | The congress, which ended in the early hours of Wednesday morning, expressed support for a national reconciliation policy Bouteflika introduced at the turn of the century in a bid to end a Muslim fundamentalist insurgency which has claimed 150,000 lives, according to unofficial tolls, since 1992. |
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