Ali Salim al-Baidh

Ali Abdullah Salih and Ali Salem al-Baidh on the reunification of Yemen (1990)

Ali Salim al-Baidh ( Arabic علي سالم البيض, DMG ʿAlī Sālim al-Baiḍ ; *  10. February 1939 ) is a former Yemeni politicians of the Yemeni Socialist Party (JSP), among others 1990-1994 Vice President of Yemen and on May 21, 1994 to July 7, 1994 President of the secessionist internationally unrecognized People's Democratic Republic of Yemen was .

Life

Ali Salim al-Baidh was appointed Minister of Defense by President Qahtan Muhammad al-Shaabi after the independence of South Yemen from the United Kingdom on November 30, 1967 and the establishment of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen , and remained in that post until 1968. In the subsequent government of President Salim Rubai Ali took over the post of Foreign Minister from 1969 to 1971 and was later Minister of Planning from 1973 to 1975, before becoming Minister of Local Government between 1975 and 1978. During the tenure of President Ali Nasir Muhammad , he served as Deputy Prime Minister from 1980 to 1981, and most recently as Minister of Local Government between 1985 and 1986.

After the fall of Ali Nasir Muhammad on January 24, 1986, al-Baidh succeeded him as General Secretary of the Yemeni Socialist Party JSP. After the reunification of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen with the Yemeni Arab Republic to form Yemen on May 22, 1990 , he became Vice President and thus representative of Ali Abdullah Salih , the current Chairman of the Presidential Council of the Republic of Yemen . After another civil war broke out in May 1994 , he was president of the secessionist, internationally unrecognized People's Democratic Republic of Yemen from May 21 to July 7, 1994. He then went into exile and was sentenced to death in absentia in 1998.

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