The members of the General Secretariat of the Justice and Development Party (PJD) met on Saturday morning to designate the party members to be allocated with ministerial portfolios in the coalition government of Saad Eddine Othmani, newly appointed Head of Government. 

The meeting was chaired by the Secretary General of the PJD, Abdelilah Benkirane, at the party’s headquarters following the coalition-forming negotiations of Othmani with other parties.

Besides the PJD, the coalition will reportedly include five other parties, including the National Rally of Independents (RNI), the Popular Movement (MP), the Constitutional Union (UC), the Party of Progress and Socialism (PPS) and the Socialist Union of Popular Forces (USFP).

Following his appointment as Head of Government,, Othmani has chaired a committee of his partisan colleagues, such as Mustapha Ramid, Lahcen Daoudi, and Mohamed Yatim, in order to negotiate with the leaders of other parties.

After his Tuesday’s negotiations, in which he met with six parties only in one day, Othmani has pursued his consultations far from the glare of the media and public opinion. He has refused to announce either the USFP will be included in the coalition or not.

Posts have floated on social media by members of the PJD insinuating the that participation of the USFP has caused a heated debate and raising many questions about if the USFP’s will participate in the coalition.
This follows Benkirane’s categorical refusal to admit the USFP, led by Idriss Lachgar, into the government coalition.

Source :Morocco World News