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Rise to the presidency
Bendjedid was a protégé of Houari Boumédiène, commanded the military regions of Constantine and Oran, rose to colonel in 1969, and sat on the Revolutionary Council from 1965 to 1976. After Boumédiène's death in December 1978, Rabah Bitat held the headship of the state on an interim basis; Bendjedid became secretary general of the FLN in January 1979 and president of the republic on 9 February 1979, and was re-elected in 1984 and 1989. {cite:source/wikipedia-chadli-bendjedid-en} {cite:source/wikipedia-chadli-bendjedid-ar}
Resignation and death
In January 1992, after the disputed first round of legislative elections and the army's intervention, Bendjedid resigned the presidency; Algeria entered the years of civil war, and he remained under house arrest until 1999. He died at the Aïn Naâdja military hospital in Algiers on 6 October 2012, aged eighty-three, and was buried at El Alia Cemetery. {cite:source/wikipedia-chadli-bendjedid-en} {cite:source/wikipedia-chadli-bendjedid-ar}
Connections
People and things also explored
Charles V's Algiers expedition (1541)· Algiers enters Ottoman sovereignty (1519)· Aruj Barbarossa enters Algiers (1516)· Capture of the Peñón of Algiers (1529)· End of the beylerbey system in Algiers (995/1587)· The French Occupation of Algiers· Uluj Ali's bid to annex Morocco (989/1581)· Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Sources
- Chadli Bendjedid — English Wikipedia
- Chadli Bendjedid — Arabic Wikipedia
- Chadli Bendjedid — Wikidata Q314688
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Chadli Bendjedid”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/chadli-bendjedid/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-27.