BOUTERSE NAMES PALU LEADER AS FORMATEUR

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85M00363R000801900027-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 7, 2008
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: January 31, 1983
• Content Type: CABLE

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SUBJ: ROUTERSE NAMES PALO LEADER AS FORMATEUR
REF: A) PARAMARIBO 0288; b) PARAMARIBO 0285
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2. AT 1430 TODAY (JANUARY 31), BOUTERSE MADE RRTEF
ANNOUNCEMENT OVER STATE-O*NED RADIO (SRS) THAT ERROL
ALIBUx, A KEY LEADER OF LEFTIST PROGRESSIVE WORKERS
AND FARMERS UNION (PALO) WILL ACT AS FORMATEUR. HE
SAID THAT ALIBUX GILL HELP COUNTRY MEET "CHALLENGES
TO REVOL1JTIO14" AND SHAPE A NEW SOCIETY VIA GOVERNMENT
HE SELECTS. (COMMENT: BOUTERSE MADE NO MENTION OF
ALLEGED ASSASINATION-COUP PLOLTERS WHOSE ARREST WAS
BROADCAST O' MORNING NET'S, (REF 8). END CO'4ENT)
3, SELECTION OF ALIBUX (FORMER MINISER OF
SOCIAL AFFAIRS AND PUBLIC HOUSING IN CHIN A SEN.
GOVERNMENT). SURPRISED MANY WHO EXPECTED THAT AMBASSADOR
TO HOLLAP:D, HERRENBERG WOULD GET JOB FOLLOWING HIS RECENT
EFFORT AS INFORMATEUR--EXPLORING POSSIBILITIES OF FORM-
ING A CIVILIAN GOVERNMENT THAT WOULD BE RESPONSIVE 00
MILITARY AUTHORITY'S POLICIES. (COMMENT: HOWEVER,
HERRENBERG MAY WIND UP WITH KEY FOREIGN AFFAIRS PORT-
FOLIO, END COMMENT).
a, COMMENT: ALIBUX' SELECTION INDICATES THAT PALU'S
INFLUENCF WITH BOUTERSE MAY BE GROWING (PRINCIPALLY AT _
EXPENSE CAF REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S PARTY--RVP)', IN THIS
CONNECTInN, COMPOSITION OF CABINET WILL BE SIGNIFICANT
AS iT MILL PR04ABLY BE SELECTED PRIMARILY, IF NOT ENTIRELY,
BY BOUTERSE HIMSELF, ENO COMMENT, NETTERLS
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