Abdelaziz Bouteflika Biography

Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Statesman
Occup.Statesman
FromAlgeria
BornMarch 2, 1937
Oujda, Morocco
Age87 years
Abdelaziz Bouteflika is the tenth president of Algeria and was inaugurated in 1999.

Bouteflika lived and also studied in Algeria prior to he signed up with the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) in 1956 at the age of 19 years. In the FLN, he started as a controller and also reported on conditions at the border in between Morocco and also Algeria in the west. But later he ended up being administrative secretary to the then head of state Houari Boumedienne.
After Algerian self-reliance from France in 1962, Bouteflika, the vice chairman of Tlemcen in the Constituent Assembly which he was Minister of Youth and Sports in the government led by Ahmed Ben Bella. The list below year he was designated foreign priest and also he held this setting till President Houari Boumedienne passed away in December 1978.

Bouteflika announced in 1999 that he would be head of state and he posed as an independent candidate that was sustained by the army forces. According to the official counters, he was elected by a minimum of 74% of the ballot. All the various other governmental candidates withdrew from the political election right away prior to the ballot and shared problems about election fraudulence which the political election was unfair.

Bouteflika ultimately organized a vote regarding his policies in order to bring back tranquility and also safety and security and to check his assistance among his countrymen for something controversial election. This moment he won by around 81% of the vote, yet this number was contested among his challengers.

The 8 april 2004 he was re-elected as President of the unforeseen high 85% of the enact a political election that was accepted by the observers from the OSCE as a cost-free as well as fair political elections, despite some small irregularities. This was challenged by his largest opponent and previous chief of team Ali Benflis. Several of his challengers declared later on that the election was fair as well as showed an extensive state control over broadcast media.

Bouteflika was confessed to a hospital in France on 26 november 2005, when he purportedly suffered a hemorrhage from an ulcer as well as he was discharged from health center 3 weeks later. Yet the long period of time Bouteflika continued to be in isolation after that resulted in a number of rumors that he had actually ended up being seriously ill due to belly cancer cells. He looked into the healthcare facility again in April 2006.

He was selected a brand-new as prime minister in 2006. Belkhadem after that announced strategies to change the Algerian Constitution that the President had the opportunity to function as president forever as well as additionally have higher power.

Our collection contains 5 quotes who is written / told by Abdelaziz.

Related authors: Ahmed Ben Bella (Politician), Aziz Ansari (Comedian), Lawrence Taylor (Athlete)

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5 Famous quotes by Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Small: If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries,
"If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium"
Small: A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an
"A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage"
Small: A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal
"A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal"
Small: Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a
"Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet"
Small: I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity
"I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity"