Editing Socialist Forces Front (section)

=== 2012 legislative election ===

Though former Prime Minister [[Sid Ahmed Ghozali]] urged a boycott on the grounds that the election would be "a foregone conclusion",<ref>[http://www.siwel.info/Le-FFS-ira-aux-elections-le-boycott-du-prochain-scrutin-ne-constitue-pas-un-meilleur-choix-que-la-participation_a2994.html Le FFS ira aux élections : « le boycott du prochain scrutin ne constitue pas un meilleur choix que la participation »] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120424215831/http://www.siwel.info/Le-FFS-ira-aux-elections-le-boycott-du-prochain-scrutin-ne-constitue-pas-un-meilleur-choix-que-la-participation_a2994.html|date=24 April 2012}}. Siwel.info. Retrieved on 10 May 2012.</ref> the party decided to participate in the [[Algerian legislative election, 2012|2012 legislative election]]. Apart from international monitors being invited to observe the process, Algerian [[Workers' Party (Algeria)|Workers' Party]] leader [[Louisa Hanoune]], a quite successful candidate in the 2009 presidential elections, had announced to work towards an alliance of the two parties.<ref>[http://www.lexpressiondz.com/actualite/149195-louisa-hanoune-candidate-a-alger.html L'Expression – Le Quotidien – Louisa Hanoune candidate à Alger] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141106004413/http://www.lexpressiondz.com/actualite/149195-louisa-hanoune-candidate-a-alger.html |date=6 November 2014 }}. Lexpressiondz.com. Retrieved on 10 May 2012.</ref>

Hocine Aït Ahmed wrote to the [[Council of the Nation]] saying that "participation in these elections is a tactical necessity for the FFS, which falls in line with (its) construction strategy of peaceful democratic alternative to this despotic regime, corrupt and destructive. [The purpose of the party] does not lie in a quota of seats to reach [but] in mobilising political[ly] and peaceful[ly] in our party and our people."<ref name=figaro /> With an electoral result of mere 2.47%, the party reached 27 seats making it the second-largest opposition power after the Islamist [[Green Algeria Alliance]].