Ahmed Benbitour

This government might include other figures who have retained some integrity such as former Prime Ministers Mouloud Hamrouche (though he has said he's not interested) Ali Benflis (a distinguished human rights lawyer and former FLN head who fell out with Bouteflika) and Ahmed Benbitour who has aligned with the Mouwatana opposition movement (AC Vol 55 No 12 Adrift in dangerous waters)...

Even less likely in the near future is the radical change of course in governance and policy demanded by respected voices like former premier and Finance Minister Ahmed Benbitour...

Bouteflika's first Prime Minister in 1999 Ahmed Benbitour has formally declared himself a candidate...

The regime does not want to give much ground to Islamist parties which it cannot control and blocked efforts to form a party by former Premier Ahmed Benbitour a respected economist from the Mzab region who suggested he could do business with former members of the banned Front islamique du salut (FIS)...

One potential player is former Premier and respected economist Ahmed Benbitour’s new Alliance nationale pour le changement...

The new Alliance nationale pour le changement grouping was created by the respected former Prime Minister Ahmed Benbitour the legal Islamist party El Islah and a few disaffected establishment party figures...

It may be significant that the CoS was publicly ambivalent about the departure of Ahmed Benbitour as Premier...

Premier Ahmed Benbitour has disappointed those who thought he would make a dynamic head of government...

The new Prime Minister Ahmed Benbitour is favourably remembered as Finance Minister in a broadly reforming mid-1990s government...

They like his new Premier Ahmed Benbitour a former Finance Minister well versed in techno-speak...