What is Ali Benflis?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Ali Benflis<br />{{small|علي بن فليس}} |image = Ali Benflis 2019.png |office = [[Prime Minister of Algeria|Head of Government of Algeria]] |president = [[Abdelaziz Bouteflika]] |term_start = 27 August 2000 |term_end = 13 August 2004 |predecessor = [[Ahmed Benbitour]] |successor = [[Ahmed Ouyahia]] |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1944|9|8|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Batna, Algeria|Batna]], [[French Algeria|Algeria]] |death_date = |death_place = |party = [[National Liberation Front (Algeria)|National Liberation Front]] {{small|(until 2004)}} }} '''Ali Benflis''' ({{lang-ar| على بن فليس }}; born 8 September 1944) is an Algerian politician who was [[Prime Minister of Algeria|Head of Government of Algeria]] from 2000 to 2004.<ref>{{cite news|title=Algeria's presidential challengers|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3511120.stm|accessdate=30 October 2010|newspaper=BBC News|date=9 April 2004}}</ref> In 2003, he became the general secretary of the [[National Liberation Front (Algeria)|National Liberation Front]] party. He ran for [[President of Algeria]] twice in 2004 and in 2014. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Benflis, Ali}} [[Category:1944 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Prime Ministers of Algeria]] {{bio-stub}}