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Algeria
National Consultative Council
The National Consultative Council (Conseil Consultatif National--CCN)
was conceived by head of state Mohamed Boudiaf in February 1992
as an ex-officio institution to fill the legislative vacuum and
to validate HCE legislation. The APN, Algeria's national legislature,
was suspended one week before the military coup in January 1992.
The CCN was an advisory board of sixty members whose principal
function was to "provide studies, analysis, and examination of
policy," and in the absence of a working parliament, "to provide
an institutional framework for passing legislation." The council
was originally headed by Redha Malek, whose official title was
president of the council. The council has no members from the
from FLN or from the FIS, which in 1993 was banned. It consists
of business leaders, journalists, and academics. Several council
members have been assassinated, allegedly by Muslim extremists
intent on punishing "collaborators" of the military junta.
Data as of December 1993
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