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Abdelmadjid Tebboune (Arabic: عبد المجيد تبون, Tamazight: ⵄⴱⴷⵍⵎⴰⴵⵉⴷ ⵜⴱⴱⵓⵏ) is an Algerian statesman born on November 17, 1945, in Mécheria, a town in the High Plateaus region, then located in the territory of Aïn Sefra (now in the wilaya of Naâma, Algeria). He has been President of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria since December 19, 2019.
A career civil servant and member of the National Liberation Front (FLN), he served as a minister in several governments, notably as Minister of Housing from 2001 to 2002 and from 2012 to 2017, and then as Prime Minister from May 25 to August 15, 2017. He was dismissed after attempting to combat corruption within the Bouteflika clan, becoming the shortest-serving Prime Minister in the country's history.
An independent candidate, despite being a member of the FLN (which did not officially support him), he won the 2019 presidential election in the first round, an election marked by record abstention. The beginning of his term saw the continuation of the massive Hirak protests, and he subsequently managed the Covid-19 pandemic.
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