Late former President Chadli Bendjedid was a first-rank head of state (Amimour)
Former minister and advisor Mr Mohieddine Amimour has paid a warm tribute to the memory of late former Algerian President Chadli Bendjedid who passed away on Saturday at the Ain Naadja military hospital in Algiers after battling with a long illness.
- Former minister and advisor Mr Mohieddine Amimour has paid a warm tribute to the memory of late former Algerian President Chadli Bendjedid who passed away on Saturday at the Ain Naadja military hospital in Algiers after battling with a long illness.
- Mr Amimour described late Chadli Bendjedid as a first-rank head of state at the international and regional level notably in the Arab world, recalling that he had done his sacrificial duty for Algeria’s accession to independence as a moudjahid or freedom-fighter and as a senior officer in the national popular army (ANP).
- Former minister Doctor Mohieddine Amimour who knew well late Chadli Bendjedid as he was part of his close entourage, told Echorouk that the latter had been wronged several times by certain ill-advised circles during his three presidential mandates but he succeeded in taking a string of salutary decisions against all political odds.
- These well-thought measures, despite the difficulties of that period finally did a lot of good to Algeria notably in the eighties with the advent of multi-party rule, the enshrining of a budding democracy and the enforcement of liberal economic reforms by breaking away from the old and obsolete socialist system of governance, he explained.