Ali Salem al-Beidh

Ali Salem al-Beidh
علي سالم البيض
Al-beidh on the right is wearing blue clothes, on the left is Ali Abdullah
Vice President of Yemen
In office
22 May 1990  6 May 1994
PresidentAli Abdullah Saleh (Chairman of the Presidential Council)
Prime MinisterHaidar Abu Bakr al-Attas
Muhammad Said al-Attar
Preceded byPosition created
Succeeded byAbdrabbuh Mansur Hadi (Vice President)
General Secretary of the Yemeni Socialist Party
In office
24 January 1986  9 June 1994
Preceded byAli Nasir Muhammad
Succeeded byAli Saleh Obad (Moqbel)
Personal details
Born (1939-02-10) 10 February 1939
Ar Raydah Wa Qusayar, Aden Protectorate
(present-day Yemen)
Political partyYemeni Socialist Party

Ali Salem al-Beidh (Arabic: علي سالم البيض, romanized: ‘Alī Sālim al-Bīḍ; born 10 February 1939) is a Yemeni Maoist 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. 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.