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During the Algerian war of independence, the FLN emerged as the main socialist group after uniting with several smaller independence groups, and was strongly committed to Pan-Arabism.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Najadi |first=Hussain |title=The Sea and the Hills |date=2012-11-26 |isbn=978-1-4772-4239-1 |language=en}}</ref> A major supporter of the Algerian independence movement was [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]], whose mixture of Arab nationalism and revolution appealed to the Arabs in North Africa.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Vatikiotis |first=P. J. |url=https://books.google.dz/books?id=TICUEAAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PT192 |title=Nasser and His Generation |date=2022-09-30 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-000-72639-8 |language=en}}</ref> He provided financial, diplomatic and military support to the FLN, and based the [[Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic|Algerian provisional government]] in [[Cairo]].<ref name=":0" /> This played a major role in France's decision to wage war against him during the 1956 [[Suez Crisis]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Anas |first1=Abdullah |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cYdNEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA13 |title=To the Mountains: My Life in Jihad, from Algeria to Afghanistan |last2=Hussein |first2=Tam |date=2019 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-1-78738-011-0 |pages=13 |language=en}}</ref> Once Algeria gained independence in 1962, Arab nationalist leader [[Ahmed Ben Bella]] was elected president after winning [[1963 Algerian presidential election|elections]] with 99.6 per cent of the votes. He composed the Algerian constitution in October 1963, which asserted that Islam was the state religion, Arabic was the sole national and official language of the state, Algeria was an integral part of the [[Arab world]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Baldauf |first=Richard B. |url=https://books.google.dz/books?id=Sabe8l9hox0C&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA64 |title=Language Planning and Policy in Africa |last2=Kaplan |first2=Robert B. |date=2007-01-01 |publisher=Multilingual Matters |isbn=978-1-84769-011-1 |pages=64 |language=en}}</ref> and that [[Arabization]] was the first priority of the country to reverse French colonization.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Platteau |first=Jean-Philippe |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7BriDgAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA224 |title=Islam Instrumentalized |date=2017-06-06 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-15544-2 |pages=224 |language=en}}</ref>
Ben Bella was succeeded by [[Houari Boumédiène]] in 1965, who also pursued [[Arab socialism|Arab socialist]] and Pan-Arabist policies. He drafted a new Algerian constitution in 1976 which declared "the unity of the Arab people is written in the community of the destinies of these people. When there will be the conditions for a unity based on the liberation of the popular masses, Algeria will engage itself in the promotion of the formulas of union, integration or fusion that may fully respond to the legitimate and deep aspirations of the Arab people".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ranelletti |first=Andrea |url=https://books.google.dz/books?id=ffVyDwAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA120 |title=Enhancing Regional Governance and Multilateral Cooperation in Maghreb |date=2018-09-28 |publisher=Edizioni Nuova Cultura |isbn=978-88-3365-076-0 |pages=120 |language=en}}</ref> Like Ben Bella, Boumédiène imposed [[Arab socialism]] as the state ideology and declared Islam the state religion.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Salih |first=M. |url=https://books.google.dz/books?id=dY-_AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA7 |title=Interpreting Islamic Political Parties |date=2009-09-28 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-0-230-10077-0 |pages= |language=en}}</ref> He was more assertive than Ben Bella in carrying out Arabization, especially between 1970 and 1977. The year 1971 was declared the "year of Arabization".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ennaji |first=Moha |url=https://books.google.dz/books?id=MRJgAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA67 |title=Multiculturalism and Democracy in North Africa: Aftermath of the Arab Spring |date=2014-04-16 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-81362-0 |language=en}}</ref> [[Chadli Bendjedid]] had talks with Libyan leader [[Muammar Gaddafi]] in 1988 about forming an Algeria-Libya Arab union. Instead the [[Arab Maghreb Union]] was formed in 1989.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Reich |first=Bernard |url=https://books.google.dz/books?id=3D5FulN2WqQC&pg=PA96 |title=Political Leaders of the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa: A Biographical Dictionary |date=1990 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-26213-5 |language=en}}</ref>
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