Said Ibrahim Ben Ali

Prince Said Ibrahim Ben Sultan Said Ali El Maceli Al Ba'alawi (also: Adeham Saïd-Ibrahim , born April 17, 1911, Antananarivo , Madagascar ; died December 24, 1975) was a Comorian politician. He was a member of the French National Assembly from 1959 to 1970 and served as Prime Minister of the Comoros from April 2, 1970 to July 16, 1972. He was the son of Sultan Said Ali bin Sultan Said Omar , Sultan of Grande Comore .

Life

Said Ibrahim was born in Antananarivo in Madagascar in 1911 . His family also included the politicians Said Mohamed Jaffar , Said Atthoumani and Said Ali Kemal .

Said Ibrahim received his training at the Myre de Villers School in Antananarivo, already with the foresight of later making a career in the administration of the Comoros. At first he worked as a translator and in 1938, after several inquiries, he received the post of head of the administration of Grande Comore and later as High Commissioner of Madagascar.

After the Second World War , he was appointed governor in 1946. He made a pilgrimage to Mecca and stayed in Cairo , where he met King Faruq and attended Al-Azhar University . In 1947/1948 he fought for a fight of the Arab League against Israel . In 1951 he retired from the world stage to do politics elsewhere. He became the leader of the opposition Parti Blanc (White Party), which later became the Rassemblement Démocratique du Peuple Comorien (RDPC, Democratic Collection of the Comoros People). He was in alliance with the Comorienne Agreement Party (CEP) of his half-brother Prince Said Houssein and in agreement with the party of General Charles de Gaulle and was twice nominated for the Assemblée nationale of the Fourth French Republic . However, his election was invalidated in 1951 and he was not elected in 1957. From 1957 to 1958 he worked as the Ministre des Finances du Conseil des Comores . In 1959, the Comoros received two seats in the National Assembly , even if they were considered a single constituency. In 1962 and 1967 he stood for election together with Mohamed Ahmed . When the Comoros received a certain autonomy in 1958, he was president of the Assemblee territoriale and the Chambre des députés des Comores until 1970 .

After the death of Saïd Mohamed Cheikh , he became the most powerful politician in the Comoros. He was elected President of the Conseil on April 2, 1970 and re-elected on June 28, 1971. Despite demands for independence from all parties, he stuck to the conviction that “no political independence is possible without economic independence”, which meant cooperation between the Comoros and France.

In 1971 the Assemblee territorial opposed him and he urged France to dissolve the assembly, which they succeeded. The new Assemblee territoriale tried to overthrow the government in June 1972.

Said Ibrahim died in 1975 on a pilgrimage to Mecca. King Faisal of Saudi Arabia , a close friend of the prince, offered to bury his body in Mecca or Medina. However, his two eldest sons, Said Ali Kemal and Prince Naçreddine , preferred to bury their father in the Comoros with his people, and Faisal then had his body brought to the Comoros in his private jet. He was buried in his hometown Iconi .

His sons and daughters are also important politicians, ministers and lawyers (Said Ali Kemal, Fahmi Said Ibrahim , Mourad Said Ibrahim , Faiz Said Ibrahim , Moncef Said Ibrahim ).

legacy

Said Ibrahim was honored by naming Prince Said Ibrahim International Airport , the Moroni International Airport .

The Prince Said Ibrahim Mosque in Ngazidja is also named after him.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Adeham Saïd Ibrahim National Assembly of France
2. ↑ Comoros: The Break with France , Helen Chapin Metz , accessed 2009-07-02
3. ↑ "pas d'indépendance politique sans indépendance économique"
4. ↑ Photo: three-foiled arches at Prince Said Ibrahim mosque .

literature

• Biography at Comores-Online.com (French)