Abderrahmane Farès (Arabic: عبدالرحمن فارس‎; ALA-LC: ʿAbd ar-Raḥman Fāris; Kabyle: ⵄⴻⴱⴷⴻⵔⴰⵃⵎⴰⵏ ⴼⴰⵔⴻⵙ, 'Ɛebderaḥman Fares; January 30, 1911 – May 13, 1991) was the Chairman of the Provisional Executive of Algeria from 13 April 1962 to 20 September 1962.

Biography

Farès, who was born in Amalou, Béjaïa Province, was a lawyer by profession. After the Second World War, Farès was elected to municipal council and the general council of Algiers. In the 1945 French Cons*uent *embly election, Farès was the fourth candidate of the Union and Social Progress List for the Muslim non-citizen cons*uency of Algiers (which had four seats in total). The list won three of the four seats. When the elected Cons*uent *embly member Bachir Abdelouahab resigned, Farès overtook his seat in the *embly on March 14, 1946. He sat in the French Section of the Workers' International (Social-Democrats) parliamentary group.

In the Cons*uent *embly he was included in the Interior, Algeria and General Administration Commission.

He then took part to the Algerian *embly election in 1948 and 1951, and became its President in 1953.

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