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. == Early life and education == Abdelmadjid Tebboune was born on 17 November 1945 in Mécheria, in the current Naâma Province, in Algeria, back then Aïn-Sefra territory. He comes from a family from the commune of Boussemghoun, currently in El Bayadh Province, located in the region of the High Plains of southwest Algeria. His father was a sheikh member of the Association of Algerian Muslim Ulema (and Abdelmadjid studied in a school that was controlled by the Association of Ulema in Sidi Bel Abbes before the start of Algerian War between 1953 and 1954) and also a soldier. He graduated from the National School of Administration on 29 July 1969. == Political career == Tebboune was Minister-Delegate for Local Government from 1991 to 1992, during the last months of Chadli Benjedid's presidency.
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