Editing Abdelaziz Bouteflika (section)

=== Fourth term as President, 2014–2019 ===
[[File:La visite du secrétaire d'État américain en pleine campagne électorale à Alger.jpg|left|thumb|212x212px|Bouteflika with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Algiers, in 2014]]
Following yet another constitutional amendment, allowing him to run for a fourth term, Bouteflika announced that he would. He met the electoral law requiring a candidate to collect over 60,000 signatures from supporters in 25 provinces.> On 18 April 2014, he was re-elected with 81% of the vote, while Benflis was second placed with 12.18%. The turnout was 51.7%, down from the 75% turnout in 2009

Bouteflika cabled his congratulations to freshly-reelected [[Bashar al-Assad]] on 19 April 2014.
[[File:The Vice President, Shri M. Hamid Ansari calling on the President of Algeria, Mr. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, in Algiers, Algeria on October 19, 2016.jpg|thumb|217x217px|[[Mohammad Hamid Ansari|Mohamad Hamid Ansari]] with Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Algiers, October 19, 2016]]
On 20 February 2017, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel canceled her trip to Algeria an hour before takeoff, reportedly because Bouteflika had severe [[bronchitis]].
 
In June 2017, Bouteflika made a rare, and brief, appearance on Algerian state television presiding over a cabinet meeting with his new government. In a written statement, he ordered the government to reduce imports, curb spending, and be wary of foreign debt. He called for banking sector reform and more investment in renewable energy and "unconventional fossil hydrocarbons. Bouteflika was reliant on a wheelchair and had not given a speech in public since 2014 due to [[aphasia]] following his stroke. That same year, he made his final public appearance while unveiling a new metro station and the newly renovated Ketchaoua Mosque in Algiers.

During his final term as president, Bouteflika was usually not been seen in public for more than two years, and several of his close associates had not seen him for more than one year. It was alleged that he could hardly speak and communicated by letter with his ministers.