He was born in Mohammed Ben Brahim Boukharouba in Guelma Province Algeria.Chadli Bendjedid was the third president of Algeria and ruled from January of 1979 until January of 1992.
By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica.Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. The Algerian President is the head of state and chief executive of the country, as well as the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of Algeria.
He went underground again and moved to In November 1954 Ben Bella and the Algerian émigré leaders resident in Egypt, who had met secretly in Ben Bella played an important political role in the leadership of the FLN, simultaneously organizing the shipment of foreign arms to Algeria.
After independence, he rose the ranks and became his head of the second military region in 1964 where he commanded till 1978, and colonel in 1969. Amid continued protests and pressure from the military, however, Bouteflika resigned on April 2.
In 1963, the post of the prime minister was abolished and the duties devolved to the office of the president. Photos and bios of the current Heads of State, Dictators and First LadiesPersistent rumours, which he regularly denies, suggest he was born in Morocco and became an Algerian citizen after the Algerian War of Independence. In 2002, being the president, he presided over the end of the Algerian Civil War and also put an end to emergency rule in February of 2011. He was the foreign affairs minister from 1963 to 1979. Abdelkader Bensalah, President of Algeria Born 24 November 1941, Abdelkader is an Algerian politician who serves as President of the Council of the Nation since 2002 and as acting head of state following the resignation of Abdelaziz Bouteflika in April 2019.
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Internal political maneuvering resulted in a new constitution in 1963 that abolished the prime minister position and devolved all executive power upon the office of the president. His term can last for a maximum of 90 days while the presidential election is held.
Over the first few years, the Department of Intelligence and Security, largely viewed as a state within a state, was gradually sidelined and then scrapped and replaced with a new agency directly under the control of the presidency.
After working in Beirut to direct the Algerian Center for Information and Culture from 1970-1974, he returned to Algeria to work as a journalist at the state newspaper El Chaâb for three years, before being elected to represent the province of Tlemcen in 1977. History at your fingertips
In 2016 the constitution was It was announced in February 2019 that Bouteflika would seek a fifth term—ignoring the constitution’s new two-term limit—in order to continue the reforms begun in his fourth term.
He also extricated the country from an important border dispute with Ben Bella’s method of government pleased the Algerian people, but the effects of his policies were not always as On June 19, 1965, Ben Bella was deposed in a coup led by Boumedienne, who installed himself as president; Ben Bella was detained and had little contact with the outside world for 14 years.
He took command of the military school in Batna in 1975 whereas the Cherchell military academy in 1981.
The Algerian President is the head of state and chief executive of the country, as well as the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of Algeria.
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Abdelaziz Bouteflika, president of Algeria (1999–2019).
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Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune Monday announced that his country “is reviewing the possibility to reopen mosques for the public,” the official APS news agency reported.