Ali Salem al-Beidh
Ali Salem al-Beidh | |
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علي سالم البيض | |
Portrait of al-Beidh | |
| 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 Mansour Hadi |
| General Secretary of the Yemeni Socialist Party | |
| In office 6 February 1986 – 9 June 1994 | |
| Preceded by | Ali Nasir Muhammad |
| Succeeded by | Ali Saleh Obad (Moqbel) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 February 1939 |
| Died | 17 January 2026 (aged 86) Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates |
| Party | Yemeni Socialist Party |
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Ali Salem al-Beidh (Arabic: علي سالم البيض, romanized: ‘Alī Sālim al-Bīḍ; 10 February 1939 – 17 January 2026) was 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. He left the unification government in 1993, sparking the 1994 civil war in Yemen and then went into exile in Oman. He was a leader of the Southern independence movement known as Al Hirak.