Second USFP leader steps down in Morocco
2007-12-05
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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.
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محمد السعيد م Posted 2007-12-05
The resignation of the general secretary of the USFP party and his deputy isn’t the end of the world. The party has senior officials and members who can restore the party. And this could bring good results for other left democratic parties. Because the coalition of parties and adopting a correct policy can lead towards modernizing Morocco and building confidence in the party action which was weakened in recent years. The question that remains is what surprises might occur in the coming future which concern the Moroccan government of which the USFP is an important pillar. Will the two ministers move to technocrats after announcing their resignation from the party? Will they represent themselves or will they cross to the othe banker, i.e. to parties which they used to describe as administrative? Questions to which we hope to find an answer by the readers of Magharebia.
brahim dadsy Posted 2007-12-06
The resignation of the two leaders of the USFP has come too late. The party militants and sympathisers have known for a long time that these two were the sons of nepotists. A. Radi grew up in the den of nepotism since the time he was Minister of Co-operation at the beginning of the 1980s. The other jumped on the bandwagon just to satisfy his own personal fantasies. Neither of them has any connection to socialism or the popular masses, but, for reasons soon to be unmasked, just with the parties thereof. If they are “men”, then that is only by self-definition.
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