About Abdelmadjid Tebboune
Abdelmadjid Tebboune (Arabic: عَبد الْمَجِيْد تَبُّون, romanized: ʿAbd al-Majīd Tabbūn; Berber languages: ⵄⴱⴷⵍⵎⴰⴵⵉⴷ ⵜⴱⴱⵓⵏ; born 17 November 1945) is an Algerian politician currently serving as President and Minister of National Defense of Algeria since 2019. Since the death of Liamine Zéroual in 2026, Tebboune is the only living Algerian president. Tebboune was elected in the 2019 Algerian presidential election. Previously, he was Prime Minister of Algeria from May 2017 to August 2017. In addition, he was also minister of housing from 2001 to 2002 for a year and again from 2012 to 2017 for five years. On 18 July 2022, Tebboune signed an energy contract worth €4 billion for additional gas supply to Italy with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi in Algiers, making Algeria Italy's biggest gas supplier. Tebboune stated that "the goal we set is to achieve exports from outside oil and gas at $7 billion for the current year". Algeria's non-hydrocarbon exports reached US$5 billion in 2021.
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