Ali Salem al-Beidh | |
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علي سالم البيض | |
Vice President of Yemen | |
In office 22 May 1990 – 6 May 1994 | |
President | Ali Abdullah Saleh (Chairman of the Presidential Council) |
Prime Minister | Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas Muhammad Said al-Attar |
Preceded by | Position created |
Succeeded by | Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi (Vice President) |
General Secretary of the Yemeni Socialist Party | |
In office 24 January 1986 – 9 June 1994[1] | |
Preceded by | Ali Nasir Muhammad |
Succeeded by | Ali Saleh Obad (Moqbel) |
Personal details | |
Born | Ar Raydah Wa Qusayar, Aden Protectorate (present-day Yemen) | 10 February 1939
Political party | Yemeni Socialist Party |
Ali Salem al-Beidh (Arabic: علي سالم البيض, romanized: ‘Alī Sālim al-Bīḍ; born 10 February 1939) is a Yemeni politician who served as the General Secretary of the Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP) in South Yemen and as Vice President of Yemen following the unification in 1990.[2] He left the unification government in 1993, sparking the 1994 civil war in Yemen and then went into exile in Oman. He is a leader of the Southern independence movement known as Al Hirak.