Sid Ahmed Ghozali ( ar, سيد أحمد غزالي) (born 31 March 1937 in
Maghnia
Maghnia () (formerly Marnia) is a town in Tlemcen Province, northwestern Algeria. It is the second most populated town in Tlemcen Province, after Tlemcen. The current population is over 200,000.
History
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, Algeria) is an Algerian politician who was the
Prime Minister of Algeria
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from 1991 to 1992.
Early life
He was a member of the
National Liberation Front party and an ally of President
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, under whom he served as head of
Sonatrach from 1966 to 1977, when he became Minister of Energy and Industry. He was removed from this post by the new president
Chadli Bendjedid
Chadli Bendjedid ( ar, الشاذلي بن جديد; ALA-LC: ''ash-Shādhilī bin Jadīd''; 14 April 1929 – 6 October 2012) was the third President of Algeria and an Algerian Nationalist. His presidential term of office ran from 9 February 19 ...
in 1979, becoming
ambassador
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to France, but was brought back in 1988 as
Minister of Finance
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until 1989,
then
foreign minister
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until 1991. On 5 June 1991 he succeeded
Mouloud Hamrouche as Prime Minister; he remained Prime Minister following the January 1992 resignation of Bendjedid and takeover by the military, but he resigned on 8 July that year, shortly after the assassination of
Mohammed Boudiaf. He ran for president in the
1999 elections
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, and attempted to do so again in
2004
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, but was disqualified by the
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.
References
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External links
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1937 births
Living people
National Liberation Front (Algeria) politicians
People from Maghnia
Algerian expatriates in France
Energy ministers of Algeria
Finance ministers of Algeria
Foreign ministers of Algeria
Industry ministers of Algeria
21st-century Algerian people
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