Abdelkader Bensalah | |
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عبد القـادر بن صالح | |
.jpg) Bensalah in 2019 | |
| Head of State of Algeria | |
| Acting 9 April 2019 – 19 December 2019 | |
| Prime Minister | Noureddine Bedoui |
| Preceded by | Abdelaziz Bouteflika (President) |
| Succeeded by | Abdelmadjid Tebboune (President) |
| President of the Council of the Nation | |
| In office 2 July 2002 – 9 April 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Bachir Boumaza |
| Succeeded by | Salah Goudjil (Acting) |
| President of the People's National Assembly | |
| In office 14 June 1997 – 10 June 2002 | |
| Preceded by | Himself (President of the National Transitional Council) |
| Succeeded by | Karim Younes |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 24 November 1941 Fellaoucene, French Algeria |
| Died | 22 September 2021 (aged 79) Algiers, Algeria |
| Political party | National Liberation Front (1959–1997) Democratic National Rally (1997–2019) |
Abdelkader Bensalah (Arabic: عبد القـادر بن صالح, romanized: ʿAbd āl-Qādar bin Ṣāliḥ, 24 November 1941 – 22 September 2021) was an Algerian politician.
He served as the President of the Council of the Nation, the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Algeria, between 2002 and 2019.
After President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who had ruled the country for 20 years, resigned in April 2019, Bensalah served as the Acting Head of State of Algeria until Abdelmadjid Tebboune took office after winning the presidential election in December 2019.