Mostefa Bouchachi

Mostefa Bouchachi (Arabic: مصطفى بوشاشي; born in 1954 in Sidi Abdelaziz, in the current Jijel Province, Algeria) is an Algerian lawyer and politician.

[1] Mostefa Bouchachi was born in 1954 in Mechta Aazib, Douar Bouyoucef Current commune of Sidi Abdelaziz in Jijel Province.

[3] Coming from a family of revolutionaries, Mostefa was only 6 years old when his father Mokhtar, moudjahid, was killed in 1960 during a bombardment in Wilaya.

[6] Mostefa Bouchachi obtained a magister degree in law from the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom where he was sent as part of an Algerian state scholarship.

In 2019, during the mass demonstrations of 2019–2020 Algerian protests which notably led to the resignation of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika—in power since 1999—and which continued to demand the establishment of a democratic transition, Mostefa Bouchachi became a leading figure in the movement.