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 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.

List of officeholders

Political parties

  National Liberation Front

  Party of the Socialist Revolution

  National Rally for Democracy

Other factions

  Military

  Independent

Status

  Denotes Acting Prime Minister

No.		Portrait	Name (Birth–Death) Position	Term of office			Political party	Legislature (Election)	Head(s) of state (Term)
	—		Ferhat Abbas فرحات عباس (1899–1985) President of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic	•	19 September 1958	9 August 1961	National Liberation Front	None		Ferhat Abbas فرحات عباس (1958–1961)
	—		Benyoucef Benkhedda بن يوسف بن خدة (1920–2003) President of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic	•	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) Head of Government	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) Prime Minister	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) Prime Minister	1	22 January 1984	5 November 1988	National Liberation Front
				2
	4		Kasdi Merbah قاصدي مرباح (1938–1993) Head of Government	•	5 November 1988	9 September 1989	National Liberation Front	V (1987)
	5		Mouloud Hamrouche مولود حمروش (born 1943) Head of Government	1	9 September 1989	5 June 1991	National Liberation Front
				2
	6		Sid Ahmed Ghozali سيد أحمد غزالي (born 1937) Head of Government	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) Head of Government	•	8 July 1992	21 August 1993	National Liberation Front			Ali Kafi علي حسين كافي (1992–1994)
	8		Redha Malek رضا مالك (1931–2017) Head of Government	•	21 August 1993	11 April 1994	Independent
	9		Mokdad Sifi مقداد سيفي (born 1940) Head of Government	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) Head of Government	1	31 December 1995	15 December 1998	Independent
				2			National Rally for Democracy	VI (1997)
	11		Smail Hamdani اسماعيل حمداني (1930–2017) Head of Government	•	15 December 1998	23 December 1999	National Liberation Front
	12		Ahmed Benbitour أحمد بن بيتور (born 1946) Head of Government	•	23 December 1999	27 August 2000	Independent			Abdelaziz Bouteflika عبد العزيز بوتفليقة (1999–2019)
	13		Ali Benflis على بن فليس (born 1944) Head of Government	1	27 August 2000	13 August 2004	National Liberation Front
				2
				3				VII (2002)
	(10)		Ahmed Ouyahia أحمد أويحيى (born 1952) Head of Government	3	13 August 2004	24 May 2006	National Rally for Democracy
				4
				5
	14		Abdelaziz Belkhadem عبد العزيز بلخادم (born 1945) Head of Government	1	24 May 2006	23 June 2008	National Liberation Front	VIII (2007)
				2
	(10)		Ahmed Ouyahia أحمد أويحيى (born 1952) Prime Minister	6	23 June 2008	3 September 2012	National Rally for Democracy
				7
				8
				9
	15		Abdelmalek Sellal عبد المالك سلال (born 1948) Prime Minister	1	3 September 2012	13 March 2014	National Liberation Front	IX (2012)
				2
	—		Youcef Yousfi يوسف اليوسفي (born 1941) Acting Prime Minister	•	13 March 2014	29 April 2014	National Rally for Democracy
	(15)		Abdelmalek Sellal عبد المالك سلال (born 1948) Prime Minister	3	29 April 2014	25 May 2017	National Liberation Front
				4
	16		Abdelmadjid Tebboune عبد المجيد تبون (born 1945) Prime Minister	•	25 May 2017	15 August 2017	National Liberation Front	X (2017)
	(10)		Ahmed Ouyahia أحمد أويحيى (born 1952) Prime Minister	10	16 August 2017	12 March 2019	National Rally for Democracy
	17		Noureddine Bedoui نور الدين بدوي (born 1959) Prime Minister	•	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) Acting Prime Minister	•	19 December 2019	28 December 2019	Independent			Abdelmadjid Tebboune عبد المجيد تبون (since 2019)
	18		Abdelaziz Djerad عبد العزيز جراد‎ (born 1954) Prime Minister	1	28 December 2019	30 June 2021	National Liberation Front
				2
				3
	19		Aymen Benabderrahmane أيمن بن عبد الرحمان‎ (born 1966) Prime Minister	•	30 June 2021	11 November 2023	Independent	XI (2021)
	20		Nadir Larbaoui نذير العرباوي‎ (born 1949) Prime Minister	•	11 November 2023	Incumbent	Independent

Timeline

See also

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

External links

• World Statesmen - Algeria