 Leaders included General Mohamed Lamari and Prime Minister Redha Malek; they received support from various groups, most notably the General Union of Algerian Workers (UGTA), but also smaller leftist and feminist groups such as the "ultra-secularist" RCD.They were popularly contrasted with "les dialoguistes", ("The Dialoguers"), who held that dialogue and national reconciliation was the only way forward.The latter faction eventually gained the upper hand, and the Bouteflika presidency (1999-2019) has been marked by amnesties and attempt to draw Islamists back into constitutional politics.