In 1988, he returned to Mayotte, where he launched a political attack before becoming the chief officer of finance, then the assistant general secretary in 1990 and general secretary in 1992.
He is a lawyer at the Bar of Mamoudzou.On 19 September 2011, he was convicted on appeal for retaining the damage amounts and interests (20,000 euros in one case, then 50,000 euros in a second) intended for his clients, who were victims of child rape.
He then became parliamentary assistant and substitute to Senator Marcel Henry, a job that he had until 2004.During that time, he also became the president of the Georges Nahouda club, a club of reflection on departmentalisation.
Since then, he has joined the Force of Alteration (French: la Force de l’Alternance) a dissidence of MDM.As a member of this movement, he qualified for the second round of the French legislative elections of 2007, then was elected on 17 June with the support of and under the label of the Democratic Movement, who he joined twice – during the first time, in fact, the Democratic Movement supported Daroussi Zainadini, also of MDM.
He beat the other candidate, Masour Kamardine of the Union for a Popular Movement (French: Union pour un mouvement populaire, UPM) with 56.29% of the votes.
He pleaded throughout his campaign for "The republican equality" and declared "It is a must that the same rights come to Mayotte as everywhere else in the Republic."Like the three others elected from the Democratic Movement, he did not vote on the trust of the François Fillon government and he abstained.