Bouchraya Hammoudi Bayoun

Bouchraya Hammoudi Bayoun is the Polisario Front representative to Algeria, with a base in Algiers. He has been Prime Minister of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic twice.[1][2]

Bouchraya Hammoudi Bayoun
Bouchraya Hammoudi Bayoun in 2012
Polisario Front Representative to Algeria
Assumed office
2016
Prime MinisterAbdelkader Taleb Omar
Preceded byBrahim Gali
Prime Minister of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
In office
19 September 1993  8 September 1995
Preceded byMahfoud Ali Beiba
Succeeded byMahfoud Ali Beiba
In office
10 February 1999  29 October 2003
Preceded byMahfoud Ali Beiba
Succeeded byAbdelkader Taleb Omar
Minister for Economic Development and Commerce
In office
1995–1999
Prime MinisterMahfoud Ali Beiba
Succeeded byLarabas Said Joumani
Minister of Interior
In office
1999–2003
Prime MinisterBouchraya Hammoudi Bayoun
Succeeded byMohamed Lamin Dedi
Personal details
Born (1954-07-09) 9 July 1954
Dakhla, Spanish Sahara
Political partyPOLISARIO
ResidenceMadrid,  Spain
Alma materUniversity of Havana, Cuba
OccupationDiplomat, Politician

Career

Bouchraya was born at Dakhla in 1954. He studied Economics at the University of Havana, Cuba. He speaks Hassaniya (a variety of Arabic) & Spanish. He has held various posts in the Sahrawi government in exile. He started off his political career as the Minister of Trade and Development, when the former education minister Mohamed Lamine Ould Ahmed became the Prime Minister in December 1985.[3][4]

He was selected as the Prime Minister in 1993 and served for a ywo year term. He then served as the Economic Development & Trade Minister. He subsequently became the Prime Minister again between 1999 and 2003, during which he also served as the Minister of Interior.[5][6]

Bouchraya called for a renewed emphasis on United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara's mandate during his second Prime Ministerial tenure and pledged to accept the outcome of a free referendum regardless of whether the popular opinion was for integrating with Morocco. He was also critical of the new king Mohammed VI of Morocco, who he claimed was violating the rights of the Sahrawi people.[7]

He then went on to serve as the Wali (Governor) of the Wilaya of Smara.[8] Bouchraya was appointed as the POLISARIO representative for Spain in 2008 replacing Brahim Ghali, who became the representative in Algiers. When Brahim Ghali became the president of SADR, Bouchraya replaced him as the POLISARIO representative at Algiers.[9][10][3][2]

References

Political offices
Preceded by
Mahfoud Ali Beiba
Prime Minister of the Sahrawi Republic
1993-1995
Succeeded by
Mahfoud Ali Beiba
Preceded by
Mahfoud Ali Beiba
Prime Minister of the Sahrawi Republic
1999-2003
Succeeded by
Abdelkader Taleb Omar
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