Editing Ferhat Abbas (section)

== After independence ==
{{missing information|his time as the first acting President of Algeria|date=September 2018}}
Algeria gained independence on July 5, 1962, and from September 25, 1962, to September 15, 1963, Ferhat Abbas was president of the constitutional assembly, but this institution was rapidly sidelined by Ben Bella, who had gained the presidency. Abbas resigned in protest at the FLN's decision to write the constitution outside of the constituent assembly's authority.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ferhat Abbas {{!}} Algerian Nationalist & 1st President of Algeria {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ferhat-Abbas |access-date=2024-11-12 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref> He was subsequently expelled from the FLN, and was then placed under [[house arrest]] from 1964 until 1965.<ref name="EB2" />

In March 1976, he signed a statement alongside [[Benyoucef Benkhedda]] that called for a democratic constituent assembly against the country's powerful military-backed President, Col. [[Houari Boumédiènne]] and was again placed under house arrest.<ref>{{cite book |last1=McDougall |first1=James |title=A History of Algeria |date=2017 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=9781139029230 |pages=271–272 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/history-of-algeria/418AD49FDD701AB08A1D77E83423AB11 |access-date=2021-01-13 |archive-date=2024-05-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240522103453/https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/history-of-algeria/418AD49FDD701AB08A1D77E83423AB11 |url-status=live }}</ref> Still, he received official recognition in the form of a state decoration, the ''Medal of Resistance'', on October 30, 1984.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://membres.lycos.fr/tahercom/resume.html |title=Ferhat Abbas |access-date=2006-02-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050324141045/http://membres.lycos.fr/tahercom/resume.html |archive-date=2005-03-24 }}</ref>  Abbas died in his sleep on 24 December 1985. He is buried at the [[El Alia Cemetery]].