Abderrahim Bouabid

Abderrahim Bouabid (Arabic: عبد الرحيم بوعبيد; 23 March 1922 – 8 January 1992) was a Moroccan politician, and head of the left-wing Socialist Union of Popular Forces (SUPF) between 1975 and 1992.

A friend of Mehdi Ben Barka, the young Bouabid was introduced to the nationalist movement of the time, opposing the French presence in the country.

On 28 January 1944, Bouabid led a big demonstration in Salé denouncing the arrest of some influential figures of his party.

In 1946 he joined his friend Mehdi Ben Barka in France to write a report on the Moroccan situation and submit it to the United Nations.

[2] Once Morocco was granted independence, Bouabid was named State Minister for Negotiations under Mbarek Bekkay's government.