Abdelaziz Bouteflika Politician

Abdelaziz Bouteflika (About this sound pronunciation ; Arabic: عبد العزيز بوتفليقة‎ [ʕaːbd lʕziz butfliqa]; born 2 March 1937) is an Algerian politician who has been the fifth President of Algeria since 1999. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1963 to 1979. As President, he presided over the end of the bloody Algerian Civil War in 2002, and he ended emergency rule in February 2011 amidst regional unrest. He has also served as president of the United Nations General Assembly.Protests in Algeria took place between 2010 and 2012; protesters demanded a regime change, as well as solutions to problems with unemployment, corruption, restrictions of freedom of speech, and poor living conditions.In November 2012, he surpassed Houari Boumediene as the longest-serving president of Algeria.

Personal facts

Birth date	March 02, 1937
Birth place	Oujda , French protectorate in Morocco , Spanish protectorate in Morocco
Religion	Sunni Islam

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Office holder

office	5th President of Algeria
party	National Liberation Front (Algeria)
prime minister	Ahmed Ouyahia Ali Benflis Ahmed Benbitour Abdelaziz Belkhadem Youcef Yousfi Smail Hamdani Abdelmalek Sellal