Abdelmalek Sellal

Abdelmalek Sellal (Arabic: عبد المالك سلال, romanized: ʿAbd al-Mālik Silāl; born 1 August 1948) is an Algerian politician who was Prime Minister of Algeria from 3 September 2012 to 13 March 2014 when he took a leave of office to support President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's re-election campaign and again from April 2014 to May 2017.

Sellal worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1995 to 1996 and was posted in Budapest as Ambassador to Hungary from 1996 to 1997.

[citation needed] Sellal was appointed as prime minister by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on 3 September 2012.

[4] Sellal stepped down in March 2014 in order to lead the re-election campaign of the ailing President Bouteflika.

In June 2019, Sellal was remanded in custody by the country's supreme court as part of an anti-corruption investigation.

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama greet Prime Minister Sellal and Farida Sellal in the Blue Room during a U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit dinner at the White House , 5 August 2014.