"I pledge to recover the public money plundered by the gang, and I know where it is."

This famous phrase is the most preserved by most Algerians from Abdel Majid Taboun, who since yesterday became the eighth president of the Republic. And who made this pledge the biggest slogan for his campaign, and the biggest challenge he decided to take on, but when asked if any of his four rivals would indicate the "location of stolen money" if he was elected president, he answered in a strict tone: "I will not do."

Teboon is 74 years old, and he was born in Al-Mashriyah region in the southwest of the country, where he began his educational career, which ended with graduating from the "Higher School of Administration", the human reservoir that always provided the state with cadres, who ran various organs and institutions, and even consulates and diplomatic bodies abroad.

Taboon began his career in 1975 as a simple employee of local groups, and took the position of Secretary-General in several states for many years, and was appointed governor in several states. In 1992, he entered the government for the first time as a delegated minister for local groups. Seven years later, in 1999, he was appointed Minister of Housing and Urbanism, then Minister of Information the following year, before returning to the Ministry of Housing as Minister again until 2002. However, he was subsequently removed from government affairs.

After a 10-year hiatus, Taboun returned to the government as Minister of Housing until 2017. This is the year in which former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika chose him as Prime Minister, succeeding Abdel Malek Sallal (the judiciary convicted him last week of 12 years in prison in a case of "corruption of Bouteflika's men"), Another former prime minister, Ahmed Ouyahia, ministers and businessmen) was also sentenced in the case.

Taboun has never had a remarkable party experience, with the exception of his appointment as a member of the “Central Committee” of the National Liberation Front, the majority party, whose president was Bouteflika. He joined the party in 2014 as a sign of his loyalty to the former president, as he prepared to take a fourth term in elections held in the same year. Ironically, the leadership of the "Liberation Front" chose to ditch the ranks of the candidate, Ezzedine Mihoubi, in the 2019 elections. Instead of Tabun, who belongs to it. Note that Mihoubi is the Acting Secretary-General of the "National Democratic Rally" party, the rival of the "Liberation Front" in every entitlement.

The name of Taboun is related to "two scandals": the first belongs to him personally, and it relates to "the caliph bank" and funds belonging to the Ministry of Housing, and he placed it in the bank when he was a minister in exchange for bribes. The private banking institution collapsed in 2003, the money was lost, and its owner, Abd al-Mumin Rafiq Khalifa, was imprisoned. As for the second "scandal", it concerns his son Khalid Al-Mahbous, pending investigation since 2017 in a case related to Baron Cocaine, Kamal Shaikhi, who is imprisoned and accused of smuggling 7 vans of solid drugs on board a ship that was also loaded with tons of red meat. Investigations into Shaikhi's commercial activity revealed corruption in the property, in which Ibn Tabun was involved.

People close to my sheikh said that many of the buildings and buildings belonging to him in the capital, and in the most prestigious neighborhoods of the big cities, were able to accomplish them in a short time and with exceptional facilities, thanks to the intervention of Khaled Taboun with his father, the minister, to obtain the necessary licenses.