Second USFP leader steps down in Morocco

05/12/2007

[File] Radi

Socialist Union of Popular Forces (USFP) Deputy First Secretary and Minister of Justice Abdelouahed Radi announced his decision to leave the party's political leadership, MAP reported on Wednesday (December 5th). The move comes only 24 hours after USFP First Secretary Mohamed El Yazghi stepped down in a bid to "preserve the party's unity". Radi's announcement was published in the party's daily "Ittihad al-Ichtiraki", where the Minister of Justice added that his decision will not prevent him from "carrying out his missions within and outside the USFP political bureau." Both USFP’s leaders’ decisions follow an unprecedented crisis within the party linked to the results of the September 7th legislative elections, in which it lost a number of seats in Parliament.