ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Former Algerian President Chadli Bendjedid, who gave the country a multiparty political system before he was overthrown in a 1992 military coup, died Saturday at a military hospital, the state news agency said. He was 83.
Bendjedid, who became president in 1979, presided over a series of political reforms that allowed for competitive legislative and municipal elections.
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