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Bouchraya Hammoudi Bayoun

Bouchraya Hammoudi Bayoun
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Bouchraya Hammoudi Bayoun in 2012
Polisario Front Representative to Algeria
Assumed office
2016
Prime Minister Abdelkader Taleb Omar
Preceded by Brahim Gali
Prime Minister of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
In office
19 September 1993 – 8 September 1995
Preceded by Mahfoud Ali Beiba
Succeeded by Mahfoud Ali Beiba
In office
10 February 1999 – 29 October 2003
Preceded by Mahfoud Ali Beiba
Succeeded by Abdelkader Taleb Omar
Minister for Economic Development and Commerce
In office
1995–1999
Prime Minister Mahfoud Ali Beiba
Succeeded by Larabas Said Joumani
Minister of Interior
In office
1999–2003
Prime Minister Bouchraya Hammoudi Bayoun
Succeeded by Mohamed Lamin Dedi
Personal details
Born (1954-07-09) 9 July 1954 (age 62)
Dakhla, Spanish Sahara
Political party POLISARIO
Residence Madrid,  Spain
Alma mater University of Havana, Cuba
Occupation Diplomat, Politician
Religion Sunni Islam

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.

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.

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.

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.

He then went on to serve as the Wali (Governor) of the Wilaya of Smara. Bouchraya was appointed as the 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.


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