ALGERIA APPROVES NEW CONSTITUTION - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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a new Constitution in balloting Thursday, paving the way for a multiparty system for the first time since independence from France in 1962.
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More than 70 percent of the 10.4 million people who voted favored the constitutional change, the Interior Ministry said.
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He said it will allow his country ''to know more democracy, to assure public and individual liberties, and to establish the sovereignty of the law.''
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Although it does not specifically authorize political parties to compete with the ruling National Liberation Front, the new Constitution declares ''the right to create associations of a political character.''
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In November, 92 percent of the voters approved political changes that began reducing the power of the ruling party, the only legal political organization in the nation of 25 million people.
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ALGIERS, Feb. 24- The Government announced today that Algerian voters overwhelmingly approved a new Constitution in balloting Thursday, paving the way for a multiparty system for the first time since independence from France in 1962. More than 70 percent of the 10.4 million people who voted favored the constitutional change, the Interior Ministry said.