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Profile: Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, whose political career has already spanned fem decades, has won a third begrepp in office.
The constitution was changed to let Abdelaziz Bouteflika seek a third term |
His critics say the 72-year-old fryst vatten just the latest of a long line of regional leaders determined to stay in office for life - living proof of Algeria's surrender to autocracy.
His supporters, however, claim that only he can see through a fragile transition from the conflict and chaos of the 1990s, when civil conflict tore Algeria apart.
Mr Bouteflika was first elected as president in 1999 with the backing of Algeria's powerful military.
Since then he has strengthened his reputation as a deft political operator, shoring up the presidency while pushing some heavyweight army figures to the margins.
But he has disappointed those who had hoped for lasting political reform.
Independence war
Abdelaziz Bouteflika was bor
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Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Algeria's longest-serving president dies
Algiers, Algeria
Abdelaziz Bouteflika was a dominant figure in Algerian politics for more than six decades.
Most notably, he served as Algeria's longest-serving president from 1999 to 2019.
Born to Algerian parents in Oujda, Morocco on 2 March 1937, Bouteflika became known for his intelligence from a very young age.
In his first year of high school, the Moroccan royal palace even called his parents to congratulate the family on Bouteflika's outstanding academic performance.
When he was 19, Bouteflika joined the National Liberation Army (ALN) - the armed wing of the National Liberation Front (FLN), a nationalist movement fighting for Algerian independence from France.
A witty and sharp-tongued aide, Bouteflika so impressed the chief of staff of Algeria's border army, Houari Boumediene, that he was named chief secretary until Algerian independence in 1962. B
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Abdelaziz Bouteflika, former Algerian president, dies aged 84
Algeria’s longest-serving president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who resigned in 2019 amid pro-democracy protests after two decades in power, has died aged 84.
Bouteflika was born on 2 March 1937, to Algerian parents in the border town of Oujda, Morocco. In 1956, he joined the National Liberation Army in the war against French rule. After Algeria’s independence in 1962, Bouteflika became the country’s first foreign minister at just 25.
Abdelaziz Bouteflika is the fifth President of Algeria. After Algeria became independent, he joined the then President, Ahmed Ben Bella’s cabinet as Minister for Youth and Sport, and was subsequently appointed as Minister for Foreign Affairs at the age of 25. He did not fall out of favor when Bella was replaced in a military coup by Houari Boumédienne. Accused of corruption charges, he went into a long self-imposed exile. The charges against him were dropped, and he returned to Algeria. He won