 The AUMA also threw the full weight of its prestige behind the FLN.Bendjelloul and the pro-integrationist moderates had already abandoned their efforts to mediate between the French and the rebels.After the collapse of the MTLD, the veteran nationalist Messali Hadj formed the leftist Mouvement National Algérien (MNA), which advocated a policy of violent revolution and total independence similar to that of the FLN, but aimed to compete with that organisation.