Algeria's former Prime Minister Sid Ahmed Ghozali dies at 88
He was not on the list.
ALGIERS — Former Prime Minister Sid Ahmed Ghozali passed away on Tuesday at 88 years of age, according to his close relatives.
He was the Prime Minister of Algeria from 1991 to 1992.
He was a member of the National Liberation Front party and
an ally of President Houari Boumedienne, 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 in 1979,
becoming ambassador to France, but was brought back in 1988 as Minister of
Finance until 1989, then foreign minister 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, and attempted
to do so again in 2004, but was disqualified by the Constitutional Council.
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