Mohamed Lamine Debaghine
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Chamber of Deputies of France (French Fourth Republic) |
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| Member of Parliament for Constantine département (Algeria) |
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In office 1945–1946 |
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In office 1946–1951 |
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January 24, 1917 Hussein Dey, Algeria |
| Died |
January 23, 2003 Algiers, Algeria |
| Nationality | French until Algeria's independence, then Algerian |
| Political party | MTLD |
| Alma mater | Algiers University |
| Profession | Physician |
| Website | Biography on the website of the French National Assembly |
Dr. Mohamed Lamine Debaghine (born January 24, 1917 in Hussein Dey, Algeria—died January 23, 2003 in Algiers, Algeria) was an Algerian politician and independence activist.
Mohamed Lamine Debaghine, holding a doctorate of medicine from Algiers University, opened a medical practice in the eastern Constantine region in 1944. At the time, Algeria was a governorate of France, but with the exception of European settlers, Algerians were not accorded civil rights. He quickly became active in politics, and joined Messali Hadj's Parti du peuple algérien (PPA) leftist nationalist movement in 1939. During the Second World War, he was arrested by colonial authorities for nationalist agitation and for inciting Algerian conscripts to refuse military service in the French army (while also condemning Nazism). He emerged as one of the group's most important leaders, pushing for confrontation with the colonial authorities and demanding independence (as opposed to the more moderate followers of Ferhat Abbas, who, unlike the PPA, restricted their demands to full citizenship for Algerian Muslims and autonomous rule).
In 1946, Lamine Debaghine was elected to the French parliament as a deputy of Constantine on a list backed by the Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties, a successor movement to the banned PPA. In parliament, he called for Algeria's independence and described France's annexation of the country in 1830 an "aggression", but otherwise stayed out of most parliamentary debates and votes (an exception being to vote against French membership in NATO in 1949).
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