  ==heads of government of the comoros (1957â2002)== (dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office) {| class="wikitable" style="font-size:85%;" |- align=left ! width="18%"|tenure ! width=60|portrait ! width="55%"|incumbent ! width="10%"|affiliation ! width="15%"|notes |- valign=top |colspan="5"|french suzerainty |- valign=top |colspan="5"|french overseas territory |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |13 august 1957 to 1 january 1962|| ||mohamed ahmed, vice president of the government council||pv||&nbsp; |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1 january 1962 to 16 march 1970|| ||said mohamed cheikh, president of the government council||pv||died in office |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |2 april 1970 to 16 june 1972|| ||said ibrahim ben ali, president of the government council||pb||&nbsp; |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |16 june 1972 to 26 december 1972|| ||said mohamed jaffar, president of the government council||rdpc ||&nbsp; |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |26 december 1972 to 6 july 1975|| ||ahmed abdallah, president of the government council||udc||&nbsp; |- valign=top |state of comoros||colspan="4"|independence from france |- valign=top |colspan="4"|(etat comorien) |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |7 january 1976 to 24 may 1978|| ||abdallah mohamed, prime minister||udc||&nbsp; |- valign=top |colspan="5"|federal and islamic republic of comoros |- valign=top |colspan="5"|(rÃ©publique fÃ©dÃ©rale islamique des comores) |- valign=top |colspan="5"|(jumhuriyat al-qumur al-itthadiyah al-islamiyah) |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |24 may 1978 to 22 december 1978|| ||abdallah mohamed, prime minister||udc||&nbsp; |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |22 december 1978 to 8 february 1982|| ||salim ben ali, prime minister||ucp||&nbsp; |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |8 february 1982 to 31 december 1984|| ||ali mroudjaÃ©, prime minister||ucp||&nbsp; |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |31 december 1984 to 7 january 1992||colspan="4"|post abolished |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |
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