Abdelkader Bensalah

Abdelkader Bensalah
عبد القـادر بن صالح
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	(1941-11-24)24 November 1941 Fellaoucene, French Algeria
Died	22 September 2021(2021-09-22) (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.