Qahtan Muhammad al-Shaabi
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Qahtan Muhammad al-Shaabi | |
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| قحطان محمد الشعبي | |
Secretary-General of the National Liberation Front | |
| In office May 1963 – 22 June 1969 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Abdul Fattah Ismail |
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| Born | 1920 |
| Parent | Muhammad Abd al-Qawi al-Shaabi |
Qahtan Muhammad al-Shaabi (
Salim Rubai Ali and jailed, then placed under house arrest until the 1970s,[2] and lived quietly in Aden from his release until his death in 1981.[1]
Al-Shaabi was originally an agricultural officer from
Nasserist nationalist right-leaning faction of the NLF, he fought the Marxist left wing for a year and a half until his ouster in the 22 June Corrective Move, also known as the Glorious Corrective Move, in 1969.[2] The government declared in 1990 that the deposition was "in the absence of true democracy".[1]
Qahtan's son Najib Qahtan al-Shaabi ran unsuccessfully against President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the 1999 Yemeni presidential election.[2]
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-136-16298-5. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8108-5528-1. Retrieved 7 July 2013.