Abderrahmane Farès

Abdur Rahman Farès (Arabic: عبدالرحمن فارس ), also Abderrahmane Farès ( born January 30, 1911 in Taher, Algeria; † 13 May 1991 Zemmouri, Algeria ) was an Algerian politician and 3 July 1962 to 20. September 1962 provisional president of Algeria.

Political career

Support the FNL

After studying law to let Farès 1936 as Notary down. After the Second World War he joined the SFIO, for he was a member of the first National Assembly of the department of Algers 1946. He took the idea of ​​equality between Muslim and non- Muslim French. From disappointment over the rejection of his proposals, he retired from the National Assembly and in 1953 President of the Regional Assembly of southern Algeria.

Farès, who first advocated the assimilation of Jacques Soustelle, the Front de Libération approached after the massacre of Constantinois Nationale ( FLN). In 1956, Farès settled in Paris to procure the task together with the French department of the FLN funds to finance the independence movement. He also supported the movement by a notary. On November 4, 1961, he was therefore arrested by the French authorities and taken to the prison of Fresnes.

Interim President

On March 19, 1962 Farès was released by the Treaties of Evian and was diagnosed in April of the same year as President of the newly formed Algerian interim government and negotiated with the French government over the independence of Algeria. After this France officially recognized on July 3, 1962 Farès became the first president of Algeria. During his tenure, he called on the Algerian population to not attack the European population of the country. In addition to his tenure was the establishment of the Algerian National Assembly. On September 25, 1962, he handed over his duties as interim president of Ferhat Abbas.

Because of its rejection of the Authorities policies Ahmed Ben Bella Farès was arrested in July 1964. After Houari Boumedienne came to power a year later, Farès was pardoned and retired from political life. In 1982 he published an autobiography entitled " La vérité Cruelle: l' Algérie de 1945 à l' indépendance ". Farés died on 13 May 1991 at the age of 79 years in the Algerian Zemmouri.