1992 Algerian coup d'état

1992 Algerian coup d'état
	Part of Algerian Civil War
Date	11 January 1992
Location	Algiers, Algeria
Result	Coup succeeded President Chadli Bendjedid ousted from office; 1991 Algerian legislative election cancelled;
Belligerents
Algerian People's National Army	President of Algeria

The 1992 Algerian coup d'état took place on 11 January 1992. Concerned by the FIS (Islamic Salvation Front) victory in the first round of the 1991 Algerian legislative election, the army took action and cancelled the electoral process to prevent the forming of an Islamic state in Algeria. The army forced president Chadli Bendjedid to resign and brought in the exiled Mohamed Boudiaf to serve as the new president. The military argued that they had done this to "safeguard Algeria's republican institutions from political and radical Islamists" and to prevent Algeria from turning into a theocratic state.

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