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Dec 12, 2020 | Tags: Dictator, President | Category: Dictators, 1 Africa dictators, Africa Leaders, Dictators

Abdelmadjid Tebboune, President of Algeria (Elected on Dec 12, 2020 with 58.1% of the vote)

Abdelmadjid Tebboune (born 17 November 1945) is an Algerian politician currently serving as the President of Algeria since December 2019 and as Minister of Defence. He took over the power from former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and former Acting Head of State Abdelkader Bensalah. Previously, he was Prime Minister of Algeria from May 2017 to August 2017. In addition, he was also Minister of Housing from 2001 to 2002 for a year and again from 2012 to 2017 for 5 years.

On 3 November 2020, during the pandemic in Algeria, it was reported that Tebboune tested positive for COVID-19 and was admitted to a hospital in Germany for treatment. On 29 December 2020, Tebboune returned to Algeria after finishing treatment.

Abdelkader Bensalah, Former President of Algeria

Born 24 November 1941, Abdelkader is an Algerian politician who serves as President of the Council of the Nation since 2002 and as acting head of state following the resignation of Abdelaziz Bouteflika in April 2019. Bensalah will run Algeria for a period of 90 days during which a new presidential election will be held. Abdelkader Bensalah was officially born on 24 Novembre 1941 in Felaoussene, close to Tlemcen (French Algeria).

Persistent rumours, which he regularly denies, suggest he was born in Morocco and became an Algerian citizen after the Algerian War of Independence. After working in Beirut to direct the Algerian Center for Information and Culture from 1970-1974, he returned to Algeria to work as a journalist at the state newspaper El Chaâb for three years, before being elected to represent the province of Tlemcen in 1977. Twelve years later, he was appointed Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, a position he held until 1993. As a member of the centrist Democratic National Rally (RND), he was Presid

Algeria's parliament named the 76-year-old Abdelkader Bensalah, leader of the upper house, as interim president on Tuesday — the first to follow the 20-year rule of Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who stepped down last week following widespread protests.

The legislature made the announcement live on TV.

"We must work to allow the Algerian people to elect their president as soon as possible," Bensalah told parliament. "I am required by national duty to take on this heavy responsibility of steering a transition that will allow the Algerian people to exercise their sovereignty."

While the parliament followed constitutional procedures in naming Bensalah, a close ally of Bouteflika, the move went against the demands of demonstrators who have called for a clear break with the regime of the former president.

Thousands reject the 'three B's'

In the capital, Algiers, demonstrators returned to the streets to protest the decision. Many of them were students, in a country where half the population is under 30 years of age.

Protesters said they did not want the "three B's" to be involved in the next stage of political change: not Bensalah, or 59-year-old Prime Minister Noureddine Bedoui or the 70-year-old Constitutional Council President Tayeb Belaiz, who has held a variety of ministerial posts. They are all known to be Bouteflika loyalists.

Police moved against the demonstrators, using tear gas, water cannon and batons to break up the crowd of thousands on a central avenue in Algiers.

Army chief to speak

Under the constitution, Bensalah may serve for a maximum of 90 days until a new election can be organized. 

Most opposition politicians abstained from the parliamentary vote that awarded Bensalah the interim presidency.

Army chief Ahmed Gaid Salah was appointed by Bouteflika in 2004 and the now 79-year-old played a key role in the president's departure. H

Algeria's parliament on Tuesday named Abdelkader Bensalah as interim leader for the next three months, prompting thousands of students to pour into the streets in protest.

Bensalah, the leader of parliament's upper chamber for the past 17 years, replaces former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who resigned last week after more than two decades in power following weeks of nationwide protests over his attempt to run for a fifth term.

A close ally of the former leader, the 77-year-old is to use his short tenure to organise presidential elections, for which he will not be able to run.

"I am required by national duty to take on this heavy responsibility of steering a transition that will allow the Algerian people to exercise its sovereignty," Bensalah told parliament following his appointment.

'A good servant'

Born in November 1941 in Tlemcen, near the Moroccan border, Bensalah is a prominent figure of the ruling National Liberation Front party, which has dominated the country's politics since the country's independence from France in 1962.

After fighting in the war, he left for Damascus, Syria, to study law and then embarked on a career in journalism before being elected as an MP in 1977.

Since then, he has been an ambassador and senior civil servant and in 2002 — three years after Bouteflika rose to power — he was appointed as the head of the Council of the Nation, the upper house of the Algerian parliament. He has been duly reelected every three years since with his current mandate due to end in 2021.

In recent years, he has also represented the country at international gatherings in lieu of Bouteflika, who retired from the public eye following a stroke in 2013.

His position gave Bensalah the power to assume the presidency should the elected leader not be able to carry out their duties. His latest appointment is thus in keeping with the country's constitution although the op