Ali Benflis
| Ali Benflis علي بن فليس |
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| Head of Government of Algeria | |
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In office 27 August 2000 – 5 May 2003 |
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| President | Abdelaziz Bouteflika |
| Preceded by | Ahmed Benbitour |
| Succeeded by | Ahmed Ouyahia |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
8 September 1944 Batna, Algeria |
| Political party | National Liberation Front (until 2004) |
Ali Benflis (Berber: ⴰⵍⵉ ⴱⴻⵏⴼⵍⵉⵙ) (Arabic: على بن فليس ) (born September 8, 1944) is an Algerian politician who was Head of Government of Algeria from 2000 to 2003. In 2003, he became the general secretary of the National Liberation Front party. Benflis was a candidate in the 2004 presidential election, but the poll resulted in the re-election of Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Benflis ran yet again as an independent candidate in the 2014 Algerian presidential elections held on 17 April 2014. As a result, Abdelaziz Bouteflika was reelected as president with 81.53% of the votes, with Benflis ending as runner-up with 12.18%.
Benflis was born on September 8, 1944 in Batna, which is the fifth largest city in Algeria. When he was 13 years old, Benflis lost his father and older brother during the Algerian War. This revolution, which started in 1954 and ended in 1962, led to Algeria gaining its independence from France. But it was a complex war that involved guerilla warfare, torture and counter-terrorism operations. Benflis went to primary school in Batna, before earning his high school diploma from Hihi El Mekki High School in Constantine.
Benflis successively held the positions of General Secretary at the office of the Algerian President, as well as Chief of Staff at the Presidential Cabinet. After that, he was appointed as Head of the Government and Secretary-General of the FLN Party, and it was during this post when he ran for president in the April 8, 2004 election. The results of that election were largely seen as distorted by fraud.
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