Mahjoubi Aherdane

Mahjoubi Aherdane ( alternative spelling: Mahjoubi Ahardane ; Arabic المحجوبي أحرضان, DMG al-Maḥǧūbī Aḥarḍān ; * 1921 or 1922 in Oulmès ) is a Moroccan politician of the People's Movement MP (Mouvement Populaire) , who was minister several times among others.

Life

Mahjoubi Aherdane, who belongs to the Berber tribe of Aït Sgougou, attended the Collège Berbère in Azrou and, as a liaison for the Berber policy of the colonial administration of French North Africa, also the military academy in Meknes . During the Second World War he served in the French army and between 1949 and 1953 he was Kaid in his hometown Oulmès . As such, he refused to consent to the motion brought in by the Pasha of Marrakech , Thami El Glaoui , for the removal of Sultan Mohammed V of Morocco . Thereupon he was deposed as Kaid by the French colonial administration in 1953 because of nationalistic activities and commander of a unit of the Moroccan Liberation Army ALN (Armée de liberation nationale) .

Aherdane was governor of the Rabat prefecture between 1956 and 1958 and founded the popular movement MP (Mouvement populaire) in 1957 . At the same time he acted as president of the Mouvement populaire between 1957 and 1986 . In 1961 he succeeded Mohamed Aouad as Defense Minister (Ministre de la Défense nationale) for the first time and held this ministerial office until 1964, when Mohamed Belkacem Zahraoui Meziane took his place. After he was Minister for Agriculture and Agricultural Reforms (Ministre de l'Agriculture et de la Réforme agraire) between August 1964 and February 1966 , he was again Minister of Defense from 1966 to 1967. After he was in opposition to the respective government between 1967 and 1977 , he became Minister of State for Post and Telecommunications (Ministre d'État chargé des postes et des télécommunications) in 1977 in the second cabinet of Prime Minister Ahmed Osman and held this ministerial office in the following first cabinet of Prime Minister Maati Bouabid from 1979 to 1981. He then acted in the second cabinet of Prime Minister Maati Bouabid from 1981 to 1983 as Minister of State for Cooperation (Ministre d'État chargé de la Coopération) . In the cabinet of Prime Minister Mohammed Karim Lamrani , he became one of eight ministers of state (Ministre d'État) on November 30, 1983 , but as such had no separate portfolio.

After almost thirty years of service, Mahjoubi Aherdane was replaced in 1986 by Mohand Laenser as president of the Mouvement populaire . In 1990 he was appointed a member of the Advisory Committee for Human Rights CCDH (Conseil consultatif des droits de l'homme) by King Hassan II , where he represented the Armée de liberation nationale until the CCDH was replaced by the National Council for Human Rights CNDH ( Conseil national des droits de l'homme) 2011. In 1991 he resigned from the MP people's movement and was a member of the MNP (Mouvement national populaire) . From 1991 until the party was dissolved in 2006, he was General Secretary of the National People's Movement. He then rejoined the MP popular movement in 2006 and became its president, while the previous president, Mohand Laenser, took over the post of general secretary.

Background literature

• Aomar Boum, Thomas K. Park: Historical Dictionary of Morocco , Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, ISBN 1-4422-6297-4 , p. 32 f.

Web link

• Entry in Rulers

Individual evidence

1. ^ Documents Maroc 1962 in Annuaire de l'Afrique du Nord
2. ^ Documents Maroc 1963 in Annuaire de l'Afrique du Nord
3. ^ Documents Maroc 1964 in Annuaire de l'Afrique du Nord
4. ^ Documents Maroc 1965 in Annuaire de l'Afrique du Nord
5. ^ Documents Maroc 1966 in Annuaire de l'Afrique du Nord
6. ^ Documents Maroc 1967 in Annuaire de l'Afrique du Nord
7. ^ Documents Maroc 1977 in Annuaire de l'Afrique du Nord
8. ^ Documents Maroc 1979 in Annuaire de l'Afrique du Nord
9. ^ Documents Maroc 1981 in Annuaire de l'Afrique du Nord
10. ^ Documents Maroc 1983 in Annuaire de l'Afrique du Nord