Younes M’Jahed
Brussels, - Today 254 IFJ
delegates convening in Tunis for their World Congress elected Younes M’Jahed of
Morocco as their new President.
Younes M'Jahed is a journalist
at Ittihad Ichtirak. He first
joined the IFJ Executive Committee as an advisor at its Recife Congress in
1998. He was further elected as vice president in IFJ congress in Moscow in
2007, and then as senior vice -president at IFJ Congress in Dublin in June 2013
and subsequently re-elected in Angers in 2016 .
He also
serves as General Secretary of the Syndicat national de la presse
marocaine (SNPM ) and was recently elected as President of the National Press
Council in Morocco.
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M’Jahed is taking over from outgoing Belgian President, Philippe Leruth, who
headed the IFJ from 2016 to 2019.
M’Jahed
said: “I will work on consolidating
trade unionism and trade unions ‘action, diversify our cooperation and continue
what we initiated 6 years ago: encourage our own bodies as well as regional
groups to be more active to enhance democracy in our own bodies.”
IFJ
delegates elected Peruvian Zuliana Lainez as Senior Vice president, Indian
Sabina Inderjit and Russian Timur Shafir as Vice Presidents and British Jim
Boumelha as Honorary Treasurer.
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