21.   A central committee draft law discussing the powers of the presidency of the party was also introduced at the plenum.

22.   The central committee would elect its president from its ranks, but each time from a different republican or provincial party.

23.   One central committee member, Ognjen Krstulovic, resigned because he could not accept responsibility for the implementation of the policy.

24.   He was apparently replaced by Ros Chhun, a party central committee member who was close to Chea Sim.

25.   The central committee secretariat was reorganized and reduced, excluding four heads of department who included two close associates of President Denis Sassou-Nguesso.

26.   Several UNIR central committee members were defeated, including UNIR secretary-general Outman Issa and former ministers Kolbassia Vounna and Ahmed Senoussi Wadak.

27.   The central committee had decided in March that these should be nominated by primary party cells.

28.   A main aim of that rescheduling had been to allow Gorbachev at the earliest opportunity to push through reforms and install a more sympathetic central committee.

29.   Commentators noted that the leadership restructuring was likely in practice to curtail still further the role of both the politburo and central committee in influencing state policy.

30.   The PSP abolished its central committee and replaced it by an assembly of guides, to be led by its secretary-general, Lt.-Col. Sharif Fayyad.