He was a senator of the kingdom of Morocco and former mayor of Beni Ansar, as well as co-president of the Spanish-Moroccan Friendship Commission.
In 2004 he was a member of the Moroccan House of Councilors (upper chamber of the Moroccan legislature, elected by indirect suffrage), belonging to the Socialist Union of Popular Forces, the date on which he was appointed co-president of the Spanish-Moroccan Friendship Commission created by the upper chambers of Spain and Morocco.
[2] His supporters argue that these police and judicial problems are conspiracies by the Spanish and Italian secret services to discredit him.
He was involved in the diplomatic conflict between Spain and Morocco in 2007 and occupied water wells in Melilla during the crisis over the eviction of the Saharawi camp in Agdaym Izik.
In 2014, after a sentence from the Moroccan justice system, he resigned as mayor of Beni Ansar and dissolved the Committee for the Liberation of Ceuta and Melilla, of which he was president.