Youssoufi, Re-elected First Secretary of USFP
Morocco, Politics, 4/30/2001

Abderrahmane Youssoufi was re-elected Saturday first secretary of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces (USFP), main party in the Moroccan coalition government.

Youssoufi was re-elected together with the remaining 21 members of the USFP political bureau at a meeting of the 189-strong administrative commission set up during the party's 6th congress-- the first one in more than ten years after the 5th congress in 1989-- held March 29 - April 1.

Mohamed El-Yazghi was re-elected deputy first secretary of the Party.

The new bureau includes 4 women, namely Nezha Chekrouni, Badea Skalli, Fattoum Koudama and Fatema Bel Moudden, in line with the decision endorsed by the 6th congress to reserve a 20 percent quota to women. In implementation of this decision, 37 women were elected to the administrative commission.

Youssoufi, 76, was appointed USFP First secretary in 1992 following the demise of Abderrahim Bou?bid.

The USFP, which is currently leading a coalition government that was formed in 1998, bringing to power center-left parties after decades of right-wing rule, has 55 deputies at the 325-member House of Representatives (lower house of the parliament) and 13 members at the 270-member Chamber of advisors (upper house).

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