Maati Bouabid

Maati Bouabid ( Arabic المعطي بوعبيد, DMG al-Maʿṭī Bū ʿAbīd ; * November 11, 1927 in Casablanca ; † November 1, 1996 in Rabat ) was a Moroccan politician.

Early life

Born in Casablanca , he studied law in Bordeaux . Even as a student he was politically active in the Moroccan independence movement. His professional career began in 1955 as a lawyer and in 1956 he was appointed representative of the Tangier Public Prosecutor's Office and in 1957 as Attorney General at the Tangier Court of Appeal.

Political career

For a time Bouabid was a political companion of Abdallah Ibrahim . He became Minister of Labor and Social Affairs under the Ibrahim government (1958–1960), and in 1961 he became President of the Casablanca City Council with the support of his newly founded UNFP party . In 1960 he helped found the Union Générale des Travailleurs du Maroc, affiliated with the Istiqlal party . In 1977 he joined Ahmed Osman's government as Minister of Justice . In 1979 he replaced him as Prime Minister and remained Minister of Justice until 1981. In that year he formed a new government coalition that lasted until 1983.

At the end of his reign, Bouabid founded the new Constitutional Union party with the approval of the king in 1983 , with which he immediately won the following two parliamentary elections. Under the Prime Minister Mohammed Karim Lamrani appointed by King Hassan II , he was Minister of State from 1983 to 1985. The party he headed remained a coalition member in all Moroccan governments until his death.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maati Bouabid in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
2. ↑ List of the governments of Morocco on Maroc.ma, accessed on March 27, 2019
3. ↑ Thomas K. Park, Aomar Boum: Historical Dictionary of Morocco , 3rd ed. Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2006. ISBN 0-8108-5341-8 , p. 400 .