List of heads of state of Algeria

This is a list of heads of state of Algeria since the formation of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic (GPRA) in exile in Cairo, Egypt in 1958 during the Algerian War, through independence in 1962, to the present day.

Presidential Standard of Algeria

A total of five people have served as President of Algeria (not counting two Presidents of the GPRA and four interim heads of state). Additionally, two persons, Houari Boumédiène and Liamine Zéroual, have served both as interim heads of state and as President of Algeria.

Key

Political parties
Other factions
Status
  •   Denotes Acting Heads of State

List

No. Name
(Birth–Death)
Position
Portrait Elected Term of office Political party
Ferhat Abbas
فرحات عباس

(1899–1985)
President of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic

19 September 1958 9 August 1961 National Liberation Front
Benyoucef Benkhedda
بن يوسف بن خدة

(1920–2003)
President of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic

9 August 1961 27 September 1962
Abderrahmane Farès
عبدالرحمن فارس

(1911–1991)
Chairman of the Provisional Executive

13 April 1962 25 September 1962
Ferhat Abbas
فرحات عباس

(1899–1985)
President of the National Constituent Assembly

25 September 1962 15 September 1963
1 Ahmed Ben Bella
أحمد بن بلّة

(1916–2012)
President of the Republic

1963 15 September 1963 19 June 1965
(deposed.)
Revolutionary Council
Chairman: Colonel Houari Boumédiène
19 June 1965 10 December 1976 Military
2 Houari Boumédiène
هواري بومدين

(1932–1978)
President of the Republic

1976 10 December 1976 27 December 1978
(died in office.)
National Liberation Front
Rabah Bitat
رابح بيطاط

(1925–2000)
Acting Head of State

27 December 1978 9 February 1979
3 Chadli Bendjedid
شاذلي بن جديد

(1929–2012)
President of the Republic

1979
1984
1988
9 February 1979 11 January 1992
(resigned.)[lower-alpha 1]
Abdelmalek Benhabyles
عبد المالك بن حبيلس

(1921–2018)
Chairman of the Constitutional Council

11 January 1992 14 January 1992
4 Mohamed Boudiaf
محمد بوضياف

(1919–1992)
Chairman of the High Council of State

14 January 1992 29 June 1992
(assassinated.)
Party of the Socialist Revolution
5 Ali Kafi
علي حسين كافي

(1928–2013)
Chairman of the High Council of State

2 July 1992 31 January 1994 National Liberation Front
6 Liamine Zéroual
اليمين زروال
(born 1941)
1995 31 January 1994
State President
27 November 1995
President of the Republic
27 April 1999 Independent
7 Abdelaziz Bouteflika
عبد العزيز بوتفليقة

(1937–2021)
President of the Republic

1999
2004
2009
2014
27 April 1999 2 April 2019
(Resigned.)
Independent
Abdelkader Bensalah
عبد القـادر بن صالح

(1941–2021)
Acting Head of State

9 April 2019 19 December 2019 Independent
8 Abdelmadjid Tebboune
عبد المجيد تبون

(born 1945)
President of the Republic

2019 19 December 2019 Incumbent Independent

For details of the post of President of Algeria see: President of Algeria

Timeline

Abdelmadjid TebbouneAbdelkader BensalahAbdelaziz BouteflikaLiamine ZéroualAli KafiMohamed BoudiafAbdelmalek BenhabylesChadli BendjedidRabah BitatHouari BoumédièneRevolutionary Council (Algeria)Ahmed Ben BellaAbderrahmane FarèsBenyoucef BenkheddaFerhat Abbas

See also

Notes

  1. Forced to resign by the military, at the beginning of the Algerian Civil War.
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