title: 2017 in Algeria
text: # 2017 in Algeria
  
  Events in the year 2017 in Algeria.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * President: Abdelaziz Bouteflika
  * Prime Minister:
     * until 25 May: Abdelmalek Sellal
     * 25 May-15 August: Abdelmadjid Tebboune
     * starting 16 August: Ahmed Ouyahia
  
  ## Events
  
  * 4 May – scheduled date for the Algerian legislative election, 2017
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 26 January – Bakhti Belaïb, politician (b. 1953).
  * 6/7 February – Smail Hamdani, politician, former Prime Minister of Algeria (b. 1930).
  * 11 February – Danièle Djamila Amrane-Minne, political activist, academic and writer (b. 1939).
  