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President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's 5 May decision to end months of political sniping by sacking his former campaign manager turned political rival, Ali Benflis, has allowed Algerians to refocus on domestic politics in the run-up to the presidential election, due by April 2004. Benflis is a capable, committed organiser who played a lead role in rebuilding the formerly ruling Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) into a major political force. With success has come ambition clearly reflected at the FLN's eighth congress in mid-March, when Bouteflika's portrait was not exhibited in the hall, even though the FLN was expected to back his presidential campaign....

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Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Ali Benflis, Saïd Barakat, Houari Boumedienne, Larbi Belkheir, Abdelaziz Belkhadem, Ahmed Ouyahia, Chakib Khelil, Nourredine 'Yazid' Zerhouni, Abbasi Madani, Ali Belhadj, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Front de Libération Nationale, El Watan, apparatchik, Rassemblement National Démocratique, Front Islamique du, Salut