The Algerian National Movement (French: Mouvement national algérien, or MNA, Tamazight: Amussu Aɣelnaw Adzayri, Arabic: الحركة الوطنية الجزائرية‎‎ ) was an organization founded to counteract the efforts of the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN). It was supported and, some say, partly financed by the French who used it to validate the claim that the FLN was not the sole representative of Algerian desires. Control over post-independence Algeria would rest firmly in the hands of the FLN and its military, while the MNA vanished as a political organization.