Morocco's PM forms coalition government

Morocco's Prime Minister Saadeddine El Othmani said here on Saturday that he had agreed to form a coalition government with five other parties.

El Othmani told the press that the new coalition will consist of six parties, namely his Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD), the liberal National Rally of Independents (RNI), the nationalist Popular Movement (MP), the Constitutional Union Party (UC), the leftists parties of Socialist Union of Popular Forces Party (USFP) and the Party of Progress and Socialism (PPS), Xinhua news agency reported.

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