Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
Female Heads of the Parliament of Algeria (Female Suffrage 1948/62) Annexed to France 1842, the northern became a French department in 1881, the southern part a colony. Independence in 1962. 

Also see Algeria Ministers

The Algerian parliament has got two chambers, the l’Assemblée Populaire Nationale et le Conseil de la Nation (Upper House)
2003- 3. Vice-President of the Conceil de Nation Zohra Drif Bitat
She was active in the resistance against the French in Algeria and known as a national hero.

 


 

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