Ruler · 1937 – 2021

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Lived 1937 – 2021; revolutionary, politician, diplomat. President of Algeria (Algeria), 1999 – 2019.

Wikidata's English label: Abd al-Aziz Boutafliqa.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 1937 – 2021; 84 years
In office: 20 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Algeria
Left it: resigned; the ruler's own article

President of Algeria

Algeria · the 12th of 14 dated reigns · 1961 – 2019

8 before

Mohamed Boudiaf1992

Ali Kafi1992 – 1994

Liamine Zéroual1995 – 1999

Abdelaziz Bouteflika1999 – 2019

Abdelkader Bensalah2019

Abdelmadjid Tebboune2019 – …

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officethis entry

Reigned 1999 – 2019 · 20 years · came to it aged 62

Came to it: elected
Left it: resignedread from the ruler's own article

the article also: resigned

In 1999, Bouteflika was elected president of Algeria in a landslide victory.

Bouteflika resigned on 2 April 2019 amid months of mass protests opposing his candidacy for a fifth term.

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