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Mahfoud Ali Beiba is a Sahrawi Nationalist politician and a member of the Polisario Front , an organisation that seeks the Independence of Western Sahara . Since 1975 , he has lived in exile in the Refugee Camps of Tindouf , Algeria . Beiba briefly served as Polisario's Secretary-General, the movement's top post, starting on June 9 1976 . He had constitutionally succeeded the organization's first leader, El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed , who had died in combat in Mauritania . After about two months, a Polisario General Popular Congress (GPC) was convened, and in the elections Beiba was replaced by long-standing Sahrawi leader Mohamed Abdelaziz , who was last re-elected in 2003 . Since then, Beiba has held several high-ranking posts in the Polisario structure and as a minister of the Exile Government of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), including as Prime Minister in 1982 - 85 . In 1995 - 99 he again served as Prime Minister but was forced out of office after the exile parliament, the Sahrawi National Council , brought his government down with a Vote Of No Confidence . He was replaced by Bouchraya Hamoudy Beyoune, who appointed him to the post of minister for the occupied territories. Since 2003 , Beiba serves as speaker of the SNC, and in this capacity he is also a member of Polisario's executive organ, the National Secretariat. SEE ALSO: |