Member State of the African Union Member State of the Arab League Democratic Union of the Algerian Manifesto (in French: Union Démocratique du Manifeste Algérien) was a political party in colonial Algeria founded in 1946 by Ferhat Abbas,[1] who was then elected deputy.
He considered that after the failure of the implementation of significant reform, and the Sétif and Guelma massacre, the assimilation of the Algerian people into France as French citizens was no longer a viable alternative.
UDMA won the elections to the Constituent Assembly in June 1946, by gaining 11 of the 13 seats devoted to the colonized population of Algeria.
In the end, it was decided that the UDMA, like the Algerian Communist Party, would dissolve and that its members would individually join the FLN.
Ferhat Abbas and Ahmed Francis, two of the most prominent party leaders, fled to Cairo and joined the FLN leadership.