Abderrahim Bouabid

Abderrahim Bouabid was born the March 23rd 1922 with Salé, it will die the January 8th 1992 after a life of militancy.

University courses

1932 It obtains the certificate of Primary Studies and is registered with the college Moulay Youssef of Rabat. It is in this institution that he discovers the national movement with the creation of the Party of National action (1934).

1939 It exerts as teacher with Fès and prepares the two parts of the Baccalaureat (philosophical section). It is the year or it engages in the cells nationalist.

1945 It is registered at the Institute of Political Studies to Paris after having obtained a license in right.

1944 Presentation of the Proclamation of independence, on January 11th, 1944, of which it is one of the principal architects and one of the youngest signatories. January 28th, the colonial authorities carry out the arrest of the General secretary of the Parti Istiqlal, Ahmed Balafrej, and of its assistant, Mohamed El Yazidi. Great protest demonstrations start with Rabat, Salé, Fès, and in other cities of the country. Abderrahim Bouabid leads the popular demonstration of Salted. The demonstration is repressed in blood and it is stopped and transferred to the prison from Laâlou with Rabat. It will be slackening one year later.

1952 When the Tunisian union leader Farhat Hached is assassinated, it organizes a general strike in solidarity with the Tunisian working class. The colonial authorities repress with violence the movement, stop it and transfer it in front of the military tribunal.

1956 It is named first Ambassador of the Morocco in Paris to continue the negotiations. It negotiates with the Spain the agreements of April 7th which will repeal Spanish protectorate on the north of Morocco. Habib Bourguiba request of the councils with Abderrahim Bouabid to negotiate the independence of the Tunisia with the France. At the end of May, Abderrahim Bouabid escapes an attempted murder in Salé.

1958 With Mehdi Ben Barka and Allal El Fassi they decide to launch a call to the behavior of a congress with the presence of the Parti Istiqlal of FLN and the Destour.

1970 the UNFP and the party of Istiqlal invite to vote “not” with the constitutional referendum and create “Koutla”.

1975 Jointly with Me Hamed Boucetta of the party of Istiqlal, they declare: " the Sahara is Moroccan and Morocco owes there entrer".

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