Art. 94 – The Algerian institutional system shall be based on the single-party principle.

Art. 95 – The National Liberation Front (FLN) is the single party of the country.

It is an avant garde party made up of the most conscious citizens driven by the patriotic and socialist ideal, who freely unite within the National Liberation Front in conformity with the conditions laid down in the Party Statutes.

The Party militants, chosen especially among workers, peasants, and youth shall aim to reach the same goal and pursue the same action whose ultimate objective shall be the triumph of socialism.

Art. 96 – The Statutes of the National Liberation Front shall determine the Party institutions and their mode of functioning.

Art. 97 – The National Liberation Front shall be the avant garde force of leadership and organization of the people for the materialization of the objectives of the socialist Revolution.    

It shall be the guide of the socialist Revolution and the leading force of society. It shall be the organ of leadership, conception, and impulsion of the socialist Revolution.

It shall attend to the permanent mobilization of the people by means of ideological education, organization, and supervision of the masses for the construction of the socialist society.

Art. 98 – The leadership of the country shall be the embodiment of the unity of the political leadership of the Party and the State.

Within the framework of this unity, the leadership of the Party shall guide the general policy of the country.

Art. 99 – At all levels, the elected political institutions shall rest on the principles of collegial authority in deliberations, of majority in decision-making, and of uniformity in execution.

Within the Party institutions, these principles shall imply the unity of doctrine and will, as well as cohesion in action.

Art. 100 – Placed under the aegis and the control of the Party, mass organizations shall be in charge of mobilizing the largest sections of the population with the aim of fulfilling the major political, economic, social, and cultural tasks that constitute a condition for the development of the country and the success of the building of socialism.

They, alone, shall be entrusted with the mission of organizing workers, peasants, youth, and women in order to heighten their awareness of their increased responsibilities and the growing role that they shall assume in the construction of the country.

Art. 101 – The organs of the Party and those of the State shall act in separate frameworks and with different means to attain the same objectives.

Their respective powers shall not overlap or intermingle.

The country’s political organization shall be based on the complementarity of tasks between the Party organs and those of the State.

Art. 102 – High positions of responsibility within the State shall be held by members of the Party leadership.

Art. 103 – The relationships between the Party organs and those of the State shall be governed by the Constitution.