Khalid Hariry

Khalid Hariry, 55, is a businessman and former MP of the National Union of Popular Forces [USFP].

After studying in a major French engineering school, Hariry became a computer engineer and the director of several software and new information technologies companies. 

In the 1990's, Hariry came back to Morocco to become a political activist with the USFP, following a family tradition - as his father, Bouchaïb was one of the co-founder of the  National Union of Popular Forces (Union Nationale des Forces Populaires, [UNFP]) and a MP in Morocco's first independent Parliament.

During the 1996 local elections, Hariry was elected at the Akhdim communal council in the El Jadida region. After a first  unsuccessful attempt in 1997, he won the El Jadida-Azzemmour consistuency in September 2002.