Abdellatif Ouahbi

Abdellatif Ouahbi was born on 28 July 1961 in Taroudant, Morocco.

Ouahbi began his political career in the Socialist Union of Popular Forces, of which he was a member from 1976 to 1991. He then joined the Socialist Democratic Vanguard Party in 1991 before leaving it for the Authenticity and Modernity Party in 2010.^[3]

In 2011, during the legislative elections, Ouahbi was elected deputy to the House of Representatives in the Taroudant-North constituency.^[4] He was re-elected in 2016. During this term, he presided over the Commission of Justice, Legislation and Human Rights.^[5]

In February 2020, he became Secretary General of the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM).^[6]

In September 2021, Ouahbi was elected Mayor of Taroudant.^[7]

During a conference in November 2022, Ouahbi stated that a new law would be drafted imposing 21 years of child support payment on the fathers of children born out of wedlock.^[8]

In January 2023, Ouahbi was severely implicated in a scandal regarding the Moroccan bar examination. The pass threshold was set abnormally low (2%). Among the only successful candidates were several children of Moroccan politicians, including the Ouahbi's own children.^[9] On 24 January 2023, Ouahbi sued a student who failed the bar exam causing public outcry.^[10][11]