The Revolutionary Council (

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: مجلس الثورة) was the governmental body that ruled

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after the coup d'état in June 1965. Colonel

Houari Boumédiène Houari Boumédiène ( ar, ; ALA-LC: ''Hawwārī Būmadyan''; born Mohammed Ben Brahim Boukherouba; 23 August 1932 – 27 December 1978) was an Algerian politician and army colonel who served as Chairman of the Revolutionary Council of Alge ...

was its chairman from 19 June 1965 to 10 December 1976. Boumediene then dissolved it and served as

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until his death on 27 December 1978. The council was initially made up of 26 members, almost all of them were officers of the

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linked to the Oujda Group. The members were as follows in 1970: *Moulay Abdelkader *Ahmed Belhouchet *Mohammed Ben Ahmed *Ahmed Bencherif *Bouhadjar Benhaddou *

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 ...

*Abderrahman Ben Salem *

Abdelaziz Bouteflika Abdelaziz Bouteflika (; ar, عبد العزيز بوتفليقة, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Būtaflīqa ; 2 March 1937 – 17 September 2021) was an Algerian politician and diplomat who served as President of Algeria from 1999 to his resignation in 2019 ...

*Ahmed Draia *Ahmed Kaid *Ahmed Medeghri *Yahyaoui Mohammed Salah *Salah Soufi *Mohammed Taibi Two of the members of the council later became the

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(1979–1992) *

(1999–2019)

References

Sources

*''The Europa World Year Book 1970'' National Liberation Front (Algeria) Political history of Algeria {{Algeria-hist-stub