High Council of State
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The High Council of State in Algeria
Algeria
Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

 was a collective presidency set up by the military in 1992 following the annulled elections in December 1991.

It consisted of:
  • Mohamed Boudiaf (PRS)
  • Ali Kafi
    Ali Kafi
    Ali Hussain Kafi was chairman of the High Council of State of Algeria from July 2, 1992 to January 31, 1994. He was selected as chairman four days after the death of Muhammad Boudiaf....

     (FLN)
  • Redha Malek
    Redha Malek
    Redha Malek was Prime Minister of Algeria from August 21, 1993 to April 1994. In his short term of office, which came in the early years of the Algerian Civil War, he pursued a hardline anti-Islamist policy and successfully negotiated debt relief with the International Monetary Fund , following...

    , Prime Minister
  • Major General Khaled Nezzar
    Khaled Nezzar
    Major-General Khaled Nezzar is an Algerian general and former member of the High Council of State of Algeria. He was born in the douar of Thlet, in Seriana in the Batna region. His father, Rahal Nezzar, was a former non-commissioned officer in the French army who had turned to farming after...

    , Defense Minister
  • Ali Haroun (FLN)
  • Tedjini Haddam


Chairman of the HCS was Mohamed Boudiaf from January 16, 1992 until his death on June 29, 1992. He was succeeded by Ali Kafi
Ali Kafi
Ali Hussain Kafi was chairman of the High Council of State of Algeria from July 2, 1992 to January 31, 1994. He was selected as chairman four days after the death of Muhammad Boudiaf....

 until the HCS was replaced by president Liamine Zéroual
Liamine Zéroual
Liamine Zéroual was the ninth President of Algeria from 31 January 1994 to 27 April 1999.He was born in Batna and joined the National Liberation Army in 1957, at the age of 16, to fight French rule of Algeria. After independence, he received training in Cairo, Moscow, and Paris...

 in 1994.

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The HCS
HCS
- Abbreviations :HCS may mean:* Hoboken Charter School* Hallett Cove School in Adelaide, South Australia.* Halifax Consciousness Scanner* Hampton Christian Schools* Holland Christian Schools* Harlem Children Society...

halted Algeria's democratization, assuming an effective monopoly on politics. Presidential and parliamentary elections were resumed a few years later, when Zéroual assumed the presidency, but the military continued to wield a dominant influence over the process. The Council's policies were mostly concerned with fighting the Islamist rebellion, with mixed success.
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