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PRESIDIUM of the SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL

PRESIDENT

George A. Papandreou (Greece)

SECRETARY GENERAL

Luis Ayala (Chile)

VICE-PRESIDENTS

Pascal Affi N’Guessan (Côte d'Ivoire)

Ramón Alburquerque (Dominican Republic)

Michelle Bachelet (Chile)

Ehud Barak (Israel)

Victor Benoit (Haiti)

Gordon Brown (Great Britain)

Nouzha Chekrouni (Morocco)

Helen Clark (New Zealand)

Massimo D’Alema (Italy)

Sher Bahadur Deuba (Nepal)

Elio Di Rupo (Belgium)

Mirjana Feric-Vac (Croatia)

Mizuho Fukushima (Japan)

Alfonso Gómez (Colombia)

Alfred Gusenbauer (Austria)

Ferenc Gyurcsány (Hungary)

Eero Heinäluoma (Finland)

François Hollande (France)

Mahamadou Issoufou (Niger)

Chantal Kambiwa (Cameroon)

Manuel Laguarda (Uruguay)

Franz Münterfering (Germany)

Jeltje van Nieuwenhoven (Netherlands)

Plácido Micó (Equatorial Guinea)

Beatriz Paredes (Mexico)

Juliao Mateus Paulo (Angola)

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (Spain)

Mona Sahlin (Sweden)

Radmila Sekerinska (FYR Macedonia)

José Sócrates (Portugal)

Jalal Talabani (Iraq)

Maria Titizian (Armenia)

Carlos Vieira da Cunha (Brazil)

Asif Ali Zardari (Pakistan)

Jacob Zuma (South Africa)

Ex-Officio:

Ousmane Tanor Dieng (Chair of the Africa Committee)

Chair of the Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean

Jacinda Ardern (President of the International Union of Socialist Youth, IUSY)

Pia Locatelli (President of  Socialist International Women, SIW)

Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (President of the Party of European Socialists, PES)

Martin Schulz (President of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament)

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The Congress agreed on two further Vice-Presidents, one from Palestine and one from Latin America and the Caribbean, conforming to the organisation’s statutory gender requirements.