Editing Mohammed Boudiaf (section)

==After independence: opposition and exile==

On independence, internal conflict racked the FLN, which split into rival factions as French forces withdrew. A military-political alliance between [[col.]] [[Houari Boumédiène]] of the [[Armée de Libération Nationale]] (ALN) and [[Ahmed Ben Bella]], of the exiled leadership, brought down their rivals and set up a single-party state under Ben Bella's [[president of Algeria|presidency]].

The increasingly marginalized Boudiaf protested these developments, and founded a clandestine opposition party, the [[Party of Socialist Revolution|PRS]], which briefly revolted against the FLN's single-party government. Boudiaf was forced into exile, and settled in neighbouring [[Morocco]]. After Colonel Boumédiène's [[coup d'état]] in 1965, Boudiaf remained in opposition, as he did under his successor, [[Colonel]] [[Chadli Bendjedid]] (in power 1979-92). His PRS group remained intermittently active in its opposition towards the government, but for all intents and purposes, Boudiaf had ceased to be a force of any stature in Algerian politics early on after his exile.