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Name and date of creation: Socialist Union of Popular Forces (SUPF) in 1975.

Transcription: Al Ittihad Al Ichtiraki Lil Qouwwat Ach Chaabia.

History:

- The left claims of the National Union of Popular Forces (NUPF) and the violent reaction of the state against the protesting leaders made the party evolve, and the current SUPF was created in 1975.

- Omar BENJELLOUN, one of the party’s founders and an important trade union militant was assassinated the same year, on December 18th.

- The party leaders were arrested in 1981 with those of the Democratic Confederation for Work, their building was besieged and the SUPF’ press prohibited after the general strike due to the price rise of elementary food products.

- In 1998, the alternation government was formed by his majesty late Hassan II, with on its head Abderrahman YOUSSOUFI, the general secretary of the SUPF. And that was the announcement of a new era.

Political orientations:

The SUPF is a left party. Despite its progressist ideas and a call to equality and social justice, its speech remains moderate enough for a socialist party.

Slogan for the legislative elections of 2007: « Choose Your Morocco ! »

Leaders and members :
• Mohamed ELYAZGHI (General secretary of the party, and current minister of Territorial Planning, Water and Environment).
• Abdelwahed RADI (Assistant of the first secretary and President of the House of Representatives of Morocco).
• Fathallah OUALALOU (Minister of Finance and Privatization).
• Nouzha CHEKROUNI (Minister Delegate in Charge of Moroccans Living Abroad).
• Driss LACHGAR (President of the Parliamentary Group of the party and a blogger ).

Program headlines:

• The economic growth is on the top of the list, by encouraging production and innovation and by developing traditional sectors (agriculture, fishing, craft industry…).
• Responding to social claims is also a major concern of the party: reviewing the educational system, health and sport, while defending Moroccan cultural specificities (developing the Amazigh language for example), and improving the management of public funds…

• For a social cohesion, working for: the retirement system, youth, women’s rights….
• And finally, striving for an open, diplomat and less corrupted Morocco

Website : www.usfp.ma

The order according to which political parties are presented does not reflect, by any means, the preferences or ideology of the Agadir Souss Team . We simply are basing it on the results of the legislative elections of 2002, that had the following order: SUPF, Istiqlal, JDP,… Please check the distribution of political parties in Morocco in 2002.

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