Contents |
|---|
 Algeriaportal |
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 twenty 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.
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) Position | Term of office | Political party | Legislature (Election) | Head(s) of state (Term) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — |  | Ferhat Abbas فرحات عباس (1899–1985) | • | 19 September 1958 | 9 August 1961 | National Liberation Front | None | Ferhat Abbas فرحات عباس  (1958–1961) | ||
| — |  | Benyoucef Benkhedda بن يوسف بن خدة (1921–2003) | • | 9 August 1961 | 27 September 1962 | National Liberation Front | Benyoucef Benkhedda بن يوسف بن خدة  (1961–1962) | |||
| Abderrahmane Farès عبدالرحمن فارس  (1962) | ||||||||||
| 1 |  | Ahmed Ben Bella أحمد بن بلّة (1916–2012) | 1 | 27 September 1962 | 15 September 1963 | National Liberation Front | I (1962) | Ferhat Abbas فرحات عباس (1962–1963) | ||
| Office abolished (1963–1976) | ||||||||||
| Office vacant (1976–1979) | ||||||||||
| 2 | Mohamed Ben Ahmed Abdelghani محمد بن أحمد عبد الغني (1927–1996) | 1 | 8 March 1979 | 22 January 1984 | National Liberation Front | III (1977) | Chadli Bendjedid شاذلي بن جديد  (1979–1992) | |||
| 2 | ||||||||||
| 3 | IV (1982) | |||||||||
| 3 | Abdelhamid Brahimi عبد الحميد براهيمي (1936–2021) | 1 | 22 January 1984 | 5 November 1988 | National Liberation Front | |||||
| 2 | ||||||||||
| 4 |  | Kasdi Merbah قاصدي مرباح (1938–1993) | • | 5 November 1988 | 9 September 1989 | National Liberation Front | V (1987) | |||
| 5 | Mouloud Hamrouche مولود حمروش (born 1943) | 1 | 9 September 1989 | 5 June 1991 | National Liberation Front | |||||
| 2 | ||||||||||
| 6 | Sid Ahmed Ghozali سيد أحمد غزالي (born 1937) | 1 | 5 June 1991 | 8 July 1992 | National Liberation Front | |||||
| 2 | ||||||||||
| 3 | ||||||||||
| National Consultative Council(1992) | Mohamed Boudiaf محمد بوضياف  (1992) | |||||||||
| 7 |  | Belaid Abdessalam بلعيد عبد السلام (1928–2020) | • | 8 July 1992 | 21 August 1993 | National Liberation Front | Ali Kafi علي حسين كافي  (1992–1994) | |||
| 8 |  | Redha Malek رضا مالك (1931–2017) | • | 21 August 1993 | 11 April 1994 | Independent | ||||
| 9 | Mokdad Sifi مقداد سيفي (born 1940) | 1 | 11 April 1994 | 31 December 1995 | National Liberation Front | National Transitional Council(1994) | Liamine Zéroual اليمين زروال  (1994–1999) | |||
| 2 | ||||||||||
| 10 |  | Ahmed Ouyahia أحمد أويحيى (born 1952) | 1 | 31 December 1995 | 15 December 1998 | Independent | ||||
| 2 | National Rally for Democracy | VI (1997) | ||||||||
| 11 | Smail Hamdani اسماعيل حمداني (1930–2017) | • | 15 December 1998 | 23 December 1999 | National Liberation Front | |||||
| 12 | Ahmed Benbitour أحمد بن بيتور (born 1946) | • | 23 December 1999 | 27 August 2000 | Independent | Abdelaziz Bouteflika عبد العزيز بوتفليقة  (1999–2019) | ||||
| 13 |  | Ali Benflis على بن فليس (born 1944) | 1 | 27 August 2000 | 13 August 2004 | National Liberation Front | ||||
| 2 | ||||||||||
| 3 | VII (2002) | |||||||||
| (10) | | Ahmed Ouyahia أحمد أويحيى (born 1952) | 3 | 13 August 2004 | 24 May 2006 | National Rally for Democracy | ||||
| 4 | ||||||||||
| 5 | ||||||||||
| 14 |  | Abdelaziz Belkhadem عبد العزيز بلخادم (born 1945) | 1 | 24 May 2006 | 23 June 2008 | National Liberation Front | VIII (2007) | |||
| 2 | ||||||||||
| (10) | | Ahmed Ouyahia أحمد أويحيى (born 1952) | 6 | 23 June 2008 | 3 September 2012 | National Rally for Democracy | ||||
| 7 | ||||||||||
| 8 | ||||||||||
| 9 | ||||||||||
| 15 |  | Abdelmalek Sellal عبد المالك سلال (born 1948) | 1 | 3 September 2012 | 13 March 2014 | National Liberation Front | IX (2012) | |||
| 2 | ||||||||||
| — |  | Youcef Yousfi يوسف اليوسفي (born 1941) | • | 13 March 2014 | 29 April 2014 | National Rally for Democracy | ||||
| (15) | | Abdelmalek Sellal عبد المالك سلال (born 1948) | 3 | 29 April 2014 | 25 May 2017 | National Liberation Front | ||||
| 4 | ||||||||||
| 16 |  | Abdelmadjid Tebboune عبد المجيد تبون (born 1945) | • | 25 May 2017 | 15 August 2017 | National Liberation Front | X (2017) | |||
| (10) | | Ahmed Ouyahia أحمد أويحيى (born 1952) | 10 | 16 August 2017 | 12 March 2019 | National Rally for Democracy | ||||
| 17 |  | Noureddine Bedoui نور الدين بدوي (born 1959) | • | 12 March 2019 | 2 April 2019 | Independent | ||||
| 2 April 2019 | 19 December 2019 | Abdelkader Bensalah عبد القـادر بن صالح  (2019) | ||||||||
| — |  | Sabri Boukadoum صبري بوقادوم (born 1958) | • | 19 December 2019 | 28 December 2019 | Independent | Abdelmadjid Tebboune عبد المجيد تبون  (since 2019) | |||
| 18 |  | Abdelaziz Djerad عبد العزيز جراد (born 1954) | 1 | 28 December 2019 | 30 June 2021 | National Liberation Front | ||||
| 2 | ||||||||||
| 3 | ||||||||||
| 19 |  | Aymen Benabderrahmane أيمن بن عبد الرحمان (born 1966) | • | 30 June 2021 | 11 November 2023 | Independent | XI (2021) | |||
| 20 |  | Nadir Larbaoui نذير العرباوي (born 1949) | • | 11 November 2023 | Incumbent | Independent | ||||
These are lists of incumbents, including heads of states or of subnational entities.
The prime minister of Israel is the head of government and chief executive of the State of Israel.
Politics of Algeria takes place in a framework of a constitutional semi-presidential republic, whereby the President of Algeria is head of state while the Prime Minister of Algeria is the head of government. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers of parliament, the People's National Assembly and the Council of the Nation.
The president of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is the head of state and chief executive of Algeria, as well as the commander-in-chief of the Algerian People's National Armed Forces.
The prime minister of Algeria is the head of government of Algeria.
The prime minister of Egypt is the head of the Egyptian government. A direct translation of the Arabic-language title is "Minister-President of Egypt" and "President of the Government". The Arabic title can also be translated as "President of the Council of Ministers", as is the case with the Prime Minister of Syria, despite the Arabic title being the same in Syria and Egypt.
Krim Belkacem was the historic leader of the National Liberation Front during the Algerian War. As vice-president of the GPRA, he was the sole signatory of the Évian Accords on the Algerian side. After the 1965 coup d'état, he went into exile and was assassinated in Germany in 1970.
The prime minister of Ethiopia is the head of government and chief executive of Ethiopia. Ethiopia is a parliamentary republic with a prime minister as head of the government and the commander-in-chief of the Ethiopian Armed Forces. The prime minister is the most powerful political figure in Ethiopian politics. The official residence of the prime minister is the Menelik Palace in Addis Ababa. The prime minister is elected from the members of the House of Peoples' Representatives and presents a government platform. The prime minister must receive a vote of confidence in the House of Peoples' Representatives to exercise executive power as chief executive. Abiy Ahmed is the third prime minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, serving since April 2018.
The prime minister of Cambodia is the head of government of Cambodia. The prime minister is also the chairman of the Cabinet and leads the executive branch of the Royal Government of Cambodia. The prime minister is a member of parliament, and is appointed by the monarch for a term of five years. Since 1945, 37 individuals have served as prime minister; 33 as official prime ministers, and 4 in acting capacities. The current prime minister since 2023 is Hun Manet.
The Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic was the government-in-exile of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) during the latter part of the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62).
Mohamed Khider was an Algerian politician.
Ahmed Francis was an Algerian politician and nationalist, born in Relizane in a family originally from Miliana.
The 1962 Algerian crisis, also known as the 1962 Algerian coup d'état, was a period of political unrest that happened after Algeria gained independence from France on 5 July 1962. It was a power struggle between factions within the National Liberation Front. It involved the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic headed by Benyoucef Benkhedda against the Oujda Group headed by Ahmed Ben Bella.
