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Bitat first supported and then opposed Ahmed Ben Bella. He held the transportation portfolio under Houari Boumédiène and later became the first president of the ANP (by the constitution of 1976). Bitat served as acting president (December 1978 – February 1979) after Boumédienne's death in December 1978.[4]
He is survived by his wife Zohra Drif, a member of the Council of the Nation.[6] Bitat and Drif went on to have three children, and now have five grandchildren. They were married until his death in 2000.
