List of heads of government of Algeria

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

This is a list of heads of government 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 eighteen people have served as Prime Minister of Algeria (not counting two Presidents of the GPRA and two Acting Prime Ministers). Additionally, one person, Ahmed Ouyahia, has served on three non-consecutive occasions.

Key

Political parties

•   National Liberation Front
•   Party of the Socialist Revolution
•   National Rally for Democracy

Other factions

•   Military
•   Independent

Status

•   Denotes Acting Prime Minister

List

No.		Portrait	Name (Birth–Death) Position	Term of office			Political Party	Legislature (Election)	Head of State (Term)
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	27 August 1961	National Liberation Front	None	rowspan=1 style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color;" |	Ferhat Abbas فرحات عباس (1958–1961)
rowspan=2 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	•	27 August 1961	22 July 1962	National Liberation Front		rowspan=1 style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color;" |	Benyoucef Benkhedda بن يوسف بن خدة (1961–1962)
style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color;" |									Abderrahmane Farès عبدالرحمن فارس (1962)
Office vacant (1962)
style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color; color:white;"|	1		Ahmed Ben Bella أحمد بن بلّة (1916–2012) President of the Council of Ministers	1	27 September 1962	20 September 1963	National Liberation Front	I (1962)	rowspan=1 style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color;" |	Ferhat Abbas فرحات عباس (1962–1963)
Office abolished (1963–1976)
Office vacant (1976–1979)
rowspan=3 style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color; color:white;"|	2		Mohamed Ben Ahmed Abdelghani محمد بن أحمد عبد الغني (1927–1996) Prime Minister	1	8 March 1979	22 January 1984	National Liberation Front	III (1977)	rowspan=11 style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color;" |	Chadli Bendjedid شاذلي بن جديد (1979–1992)
2
3				IV (1982)
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color; color:white;"|	3		Abdelhamid Brahimi عبد الحميد براهيمي (1936–) Prime Minister		1	22 January 1984	5 November 1988	National Liberation Front
2
style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color; color:white;"|	4		Kasdi Merbah قاصدي مرباح (1938–1993) Head of Government	•	5 November 1988	9 September 1989	National Liberation Front	V (1987)
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color; color:white;"|	5		Mouloud Hamrouche مولود حمروش (1943–) Head of Government	1	9 September 1989	5 June 1991	National Liberation Front
2
rowspan=4 style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color; color:white;"|	6		Sid Ahmed Ghozali سيد أحمد غزالي (1937–) Head of Government	1	5 June 1991	8 July 1992	National Liberation Front
2
3
				National Consultative Council (1992)				rowspan=1 style="background:Template:Party of the Socialist Revolution/meta/color;" |	Mohamed Boudiaf محمد بوضياف (1992)
style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color; color:white;"|	7		Belaid Abdessalam بلعيد عبد السلام (1928–) Head of Government		•	8 July 1992	21 August 1993	National Liberation Front	rowspan=2 style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color;" |	Ali Kafi علي حسين كافي (1992–1994)
style="background:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color; color:white;"|	8		Redha Malek رضا مالك (1931–2017) Head of Government		•	21 August 1993	11 April 1994	Independent
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color; color:white;"|	9		Mokdad Sifi مقداد سيفي (1940–) Head of Government	1	11 April 1994	31 December 1995	National Liberation Front	National Transitional Council (1994)	rowspan=5 style="background:Template:Independent/meta/color;" |	Liamine Zéroual اليمين زروال (1994–1999)
2
style="background:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color; color:white;"|	10		Ahmed Ouyahia أحمد أويحيى (1952–) Head of Government	1	31 December 1995	15 December 1998	Independent
style="background:Template:National Rally for Democracy (Algeria)/meta/color; color:white;"|				2			National Rally for Democracy	VI (1997)
style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color; color:white;"|	11		Smail Hamdani اسماعيل حمداني (1930–2017) Head of Government	•	15 December 1998	23 December 1999	National Liberation Front
style="background:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color; color:white;"|	12		Ahmed Benbitour أحمد بن بيتور (1946–) Head of Government	•	23 December 1999	27 August 2000	Independent		rowspan=20 style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color;" |	Abdelaziz Bouteflika عبد العزيز بوتفليقة (1999–2019)
rowspan=3 style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color; color:white;"|	13		Ali Benflis على بن فليس (1944–) Head of Government	1	27 August 2000	5 May 2003	National Liberation Front
2
3				VII (2002)
rowspan=3 style="background:Template:National Rally for Democracy (Algeria)/meta/color; color:white"|	(10)		Ahmed Ouyahia أحمد أويحيى (1952–) Head of Government		3	5 May 2003	24 May 2006	National Rally for Democracy
4
5
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color; color:white"|	14		Abdelaziz Belkhadem عبد العزيز بلخادم (1945–) Head of Government	1	24 May 2006	23 June 2008	National Liberation Front	VIII (2007)
2
rowspan=4 style="background:Template:National Rally for Democracy (Algeria)/meta/color; color:white"|	(10)		Ahmed Ouyahia أحمد أويحيى (1952–) Prime Minister	6	23 June 2008	3 September 2012	National Rally for Democracy
7
8
9
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color; color:white;"|	15		Abdelmalek Sellal عبد المالك سلال (1948–) Prime Minister	1	3 September 2012	13 March 2014	National Liberation Front	IX (2012)
2
style="background:Template:National Rally for Democracy (Algeria)/meta/color; color:white;"|	—		Youcef Yousfi يوسف اليوسفي (1941–) Acting Prime Minister	•	13 March 2014	29 April 2014	National Rally for Democracy
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color; color:white;"|	(15)		Abdelmalek Sellal عبد المالك سلال (1948–) Prime Minister	3	29 April 2014	25 May 2017	National Liberation Front
4
style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color; color:white;"|	16		Abdelmadjid Tebboune عبد المجيد تبون (1945–) Prime Minister	•	25 May 2017	15 August 2017	National Liberation Front	X (2017)
style="background:Template:National Rally for Democracy (Algeria)/meta/color; color:white"|	(10)		Ahmed Ouyahia أحمد أويحيى (1952–) Prime Minister	10	16 August 2017	12 March 2019	National Rally for Democracy
style="background:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color; color:white;"|	17		Noureddine Bedoui نور الدين بدوي (1959–) Prime Minister	•	12 March 2019	19 December 2019	Independent		style="background:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" |	Abdelkader Bensalah عبد القـادر بن صالح (2019)
style="background:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color; color:white;"|	—		Sabri Boukadoum صبري بوقادوم‎ (1958–) Acting Prime Minister	•	19 December 2019	28 December 2019	Independent		rowspan=2 style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color;" |	Abdelmadjid Tebboune عبد المجيد تبون (since 2019)
style="background:Template:National Liberation Front (Algeria)/meta/color; color:white;"|	18		Abdelaziz Djerad (1954–) Prime Minister	•	28 December 2019	Incumbent	National Liberation Front

See also

• Algeria
  • List of French governors of Algeria
  • President of Algeria
    • List of heads of state of Algeria
  • Prime Minister of Algeria
• Lists of Incumbents

External links

• World Statesmen - Algeria