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Ahmed Ben Bella (Arabic: أحمد بن بلّة Aḥmad bin Billah; 25 December 1916 – 11 April 2012) was an Algerian politician, soldier and socialist revolutionary who served as the head of government of Algeria from 27 September 1962 to 15 September 1963 and then the first president of Algeria from 15 September 1963 to 19 June 1965.
Ahmed Ben Bella, first president of the Algerian Republic. Houari Boumédiène, at the time Algerian Minister of Defence. Following the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962), with the help of then Chief of Staff Houari Boumédiène and the National Liberation Army (ALN), Ahmed Ben Bella was elected as Prime Minister in September 1962, ousting former Prime Minister Benyoucef Benkhedda.
Incumbent Ahmed Ben Bella of the National Liberation Front (the sole legal party) was the only candidate, and was re-elected with 99.61% of the vote, based on an 89% turnout. [ 2 ] Results
Ahmed Ben Bella أحمد بن بلّة (1916–2012) 1963: 15 September 1963 19 June 1965 : 1 year, 277 days National Liberation Front — Revolutionary Council مجلس الثورة Chairman: Colonel Houari Boumédiène هواري بومدين (1932–1978) — 19 June 1965 10 December 1976 11 years, 174 days Military: 2 Houari Boumédiène
By 9 September, the ALN entered Algiers and Ben Bella declared that the crisis ended. [3] In late 1962, the GPRA was disbanded, after Ahmed Ben Bella seized power through forming a rival institution (a Political Bureau of the FLN) with the backing of the National Liberation Army (ALN), controlled by Col. Houari Boumédiène. An attempt by GPRA ...
The Socialist Forces Front (FFS) was formed by Hocine Aït Ahmed on 29 September 1963 [1] [2] in the city of Tizi Ouzou to oppose Ben Bella's government. The FFS party of Aït Ahmed contested the authority of the National Liberation Front, which had purged internal dissent and ruled Algeria as a one-party state.
In April 1965, Ben Bella issued orders to local police prefects to report directly to him rather than through normal channels in the Ministry of Interior. The minister, Ahmed Medeghri, one of Boumediene's closest associates in the Oujda Group, resigned his portfolio in protest and was replaced by a Political Bureau loyalist. Ben Bella next ...
There had been a power struggle in 1966–1967 between Boumédiène and former guerilla leaders and Marxists.Colonel Tahar Zbiri had been involved in the 1965 coup that ousted Ahmed Ben Bella and was rewarded with a promotion to chief of staff, however him and Boumédiène drifted apart over the years.