"Ain al-Sultan" in Algeria … said Bouteflika "the man who led Algeria behind the curtain"

More than a month ago, protesters in Algiers spoke up shouting, "This people do not want Bouteflika and Said."

The move, which began a few days after the ruling party announced its intention to appoint Abdelaziz Bouteflika in the 2019 presidential election, came to fruition after the announcement by Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. of his resignation after 20 years of mandate. Events

Born in the "Algerian liberation revolution"

Said Bouteflika was born in 1958 in Oujda, Morocco, of the youngest brother of the president, Abdul Ghani, Abdel Rahim and Said.

Its birth goes back to the Algerian liberation revolution, at the beginning of the rise of his brother Abdel Aziz, 20 years old.

His father died at the age of one year. His mother was raised by his brother Abdulaziz. She studied until the country's university and graduated from Bab Al-Zuwar University. In 1983, he moved to Paris to continue his studies.

He obtained a PhD from the University of Paris and the Marie Curie University of Paris VI in the field of artificial intelligence in pattern recognition. He obtained his Ph.D. from Pierre and Marie Curie University and returned to Algeria in 1987 to work at the university.

"Happy" in the presidential palace

In 1999, after the election of his brother to the presidency of Algeria, the latter appointed him special advisor for an unpublished decision and was officially assigned to the information systems of the Presidency.

He led two election campaigns for his brother in 2004 and 2008, and the political class started a "very likely" successor.

In 2005, Abdelaziz Bouteflika entered a hospital in Paris to treat an ulcer, forcing him to slow down his work in the country, which strengthened the role and importance of Said. According to one of the nomads of Almorida Palace in an interview with the French newspaper "John Africa", who said:

"It is the agenda of the president who interferes with the appointment of ministers, diplomats, governors, directors of public institutions and intervenes behind the scenes of the FLN, so that it becomes irreplaceable to join President Bouteflika.

Saeed was known in academic circles as before 1999 as a lecturer at Bab Al-Zuwar University for Science and Technology in Artificial Intelligence.

In 1999, the president summoned him to the palace and appointed him as counselor, but he remained relatively distant from the spotlight and was not aware of any political position or public statement on a case until the president suffered a stroke in 2013.

It began to increase in April 2013 with the announcement of the President's injury. Since then, he has begun to appear and seems to be playing a leading role on the political scene.

"Named the sultan and the de facto ruler"

Algerian local media reported that Bouteflika's advisor was the country's true leader, and the newspapers described it as "the eye of the Sultan".

While his opponents said: The advisor is more than a consultant, he gives orders to run the country, thus becoming the guardian of the Algerian president, as described in the British newspaper "Financial Times".

New Dawn party leader Tahir Ben Bouibesh said that in the absence of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika from the scene because of his illness, the public was convinced that Said was the de facto leader.

"Said was present in all major affairs next to his brother, who had been stuck by the disease until it appeared that decisions made in the name of the President of the Republic came from the younger brother.

It is reported in Algerian circles that Bouteflika is the link between the presidency and his circle of entrepreneurs, the first of which is Ali Haddad, who devotes parties to the president's election campaigns.