Original title: former Algerian President Bouteflika died at the age of 84
According to Reuters on September 17, the Algerian presidential palace announced on September 17 local time that former President Bouteflika died at the age of 84.
Bouteflika was born in 1937. He was elected president in 1999 and was re elected in 2004, 2009 and 2014. In 2019, Bouteflika announced his fifth election for re-election, which aroused public dissatisfaction, and large-scale demonstrations lasting for several weeks broke out everywhere. On April 2 of that year, he informed the Constitutional Council and announced his resignation from the presidency due to illness.