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This article is about the heads of state of modern Algeria. For the heads of government of modern Algeria, see List of heads of government of Algeria.
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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.

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 head 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
style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color; color:white;"|— Ferhat Abbas
فرحات عباس

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

– 19 September 1958 9 August 1961 National Liberation Front
style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color; color:white;"|— Benyoucef Benkhedda
بن يوسف بن خدة

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

– 9 August 1961 27 September 1962 National Liberation Front
style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color; color:white;"|— Abderrahmane Farès
عبدالرحمن فارس

(1911–1991)
Chairman of the Provisional Executive

– 13 April 1962 25 September 1962 National Liberation Front
style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color; color:white;"|— Ferhat Abbas
فرحات عباس

(1899–1985)
President of the National Constituent Assembly

– 25 September 1962 15 September 1963 National Liberation Front
style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color; color:white;"|1 Ahmed Ben Bella
أحمد بن بلّة

(1916–2012)
President of the Republic

1963 15 September 1963 19 June 1965
(deposed.) 		National Liberation Front
— Revolutionary Council
Chairman: Colonel Houari Boumédiène 		— 19 June 1965 10 December 1976 Military
style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color; color:white;"|2 Houari Boumédiène
هواري بومدين

(1932–1978)
President of the Republic

1976 10 December 1976 27 December 1978
(died in office.) 		National Liberation Front
style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color; color:white;"|— Rabah Bitat
رابح بيطاط

(1925–2000)
Acting Head of State

– 27 December 1978 9 February 1979 National Liberation Front
style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color; color:white;"|3 Chadli Bendjedid
شاذلي بن جديد

(1929–2012)
President of the Republic

1979
1984
1988 		9 February 1979 11 January 1992
(resigned.)[a] 		National Liberation Front
style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color; color:white;"|— Abdelmalek Benhabyles
عبد المالك بن حبيلس

(1921–2018)
Chairman of the Constitutional Council

– 11 January 1992 14 January 1992 National Liberation Front
style="background:Template:Party of the Socialist Revolution/meta/color; color:white;"|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
style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color; color:white;"|5 Ali Kafi
علي حسين كافي

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

– 2 July 1992 31 January 1994 National Liberation Front
style="background:Template:Independent/meta/color; color:black;"|6 Liamine Zéroual
اليمين زروال
(1941–) 		1995 31 January 1994
State President
27 November 1995
President of the Republic 		27 April 1999 Independent
style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color; color:white;"|7 Abdelaziz Bouteflika
عبد العزيز بوتفليقة

(1937–)
President of the Republic

1999
2004
2009
2014 		27 April 1999 2 April 2019 National Liberation Front
style="background:Template:National Rally for Democracy (Algeria)/meta/color; color:black;"|— Abdelkader Bensalah
عبد القـادر بن صالح

(1941–)
Acting Head of State

– 9 April 2019 19 December 2019 National Rally for Democracy
style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color; color:white;"|8 Abdelmadjid Tebboune
عبد المجيد تبون

(1945–)
President of the Republic

2019 19 December 2019 Incumbent National Liberation Front

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

Notes

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

See also

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