Maati Bouabid (

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: المعطي بوعبيد, November 11, 1927 in

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– November 1, 1996 in

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) was a politician and a lawyer who served as the

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between March 22, 1979 and November 30, 1983. He was the 9th

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and served under king Hassan II. He also served as the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs from 1968 to 1970 and Minister of Justice.

Early life

Maati Bouabid was born in 1927 in the city of

. After completing his primary and secondary education in his hometown, he traveled to

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and obtained a law degree from the University of Bordeaux and a postgraduate degree in private law.

Career

Maati was sworn to the legal profession in 1952 and was registered at the high table in 1955. Bouabid was offered an official position at the start of independence, like young law graduates, few in number then. He accepted the post of public prosecutor at the regional court of

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from 1956 until the unification of the court of appeal of Tangier in 1957. Bouabid was the first mayor of the city of

and president of the RAJA Casablanca from 1970 to 1972. In 1983, he and a group of people with whom he shares common convictions founded the Constitutional Union party and remained the founding leader and de facto head of this party throughout three national conferences. In the eighteenth government, which lasted from November 30, 1983 to April 11, 1985, Maati Bouabid was Minister of State.

Death

Bouabid died in Friday, after suffering a heart attack. He was 69.

References

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