Ferhat Abbas

President of Algeria

Died when: 86 years 60 days (1033 months)
Star Sign: Scorpio

 

Ferhat Abbas (Arabic: فرحات عباس‎‎;ALA-LC: Farḥāt ʿAbbās; 24 August 1899 – 24 December 1985) was an Algerian politician who acted in a provisional capacity as the then yet-to-become independent country's Prime Minister from 1958 to 1961, as well as the first President of the National Assembly and the first acting Chief of State after independence.

His political views evolved from pro-French collaboration to those of a revolutionary nationalist, over a period of approximately twenty years.

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