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Ferhat Abbas
Ferhat Abbas (1899–1985) was an Algerian nationalist politician and pharmacist from Sétif. At first an advocate of equal rights within France, he issued the Manifesto of the Algerian People in 1943 calling for an autonomous Algeria, and in 1956 he joined the FLN. He was the first president of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic and, after independence, president of the National Constituent Assembly until 1963.
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