Ibrahim Aboubacar

Ibrahim Aboubacar (born 1 February 1965) is a French politician who was the French National Assembly deputy for Mayotte's 2nd constituency from 2012 to 2017.

Biography Aboubacar was born on 1 February 1965 in Fomboni on the island of Mohéli in Comoros. He and his family lived in Moroni until the Comoros gained independence in 1975, when they moved to Sada, Mayotte.

His family sent him to Réunion for secondary schooling, then he went to Paris to study engineering at l'École spéciale des travaux publics (ESTP) with the goal of returning to help improve Mayotte.

Aboubacar returned to Mayotte in 1990 where he worked in an urban planning agency for five years. During this time, he was involved in trade union activism and eventually became the spokesperson for the Mayotte Workers' Union before entering politics during the 1992 municipal elections. His constituency was won in the second round by former deputy, Republican candidate Mansour Kamardine.

Political views Aboubacar's activity in politics is particularly concerned with the social and economic development of Mayotte, as he believes that the process of departmentalisation in Mayotte has not yet been completed.

In contrast to the majority of his party, Aboubacar argues for a restriction on obtaining French nationality for children born in Mayotte to illegal immigrants, as a means of "combatting smuggling networks, which are hiding all sorts of trafficking".