As the legislative, regional and municipal elections scheduled for the very first time on the same day, September 8, 2021, approach, the Minister of the Interior, Abdelaouafi Laftit, is mobilizing managers at various levels for their success. In this sense, it has been forbidden for walis, governors and authority agents of certain services to take summer vacations.
Mosques are prohibited from getting involved in political disputes. This is what the Minister of Endowments affirmed this week, telling Islamist deputies, as well as parties, that they must avoid, on the eve of the elections, seducing imams and other religious officials.
360 million dirhams, this is the total amount granted by the State to political parties, as well as to trade union centers for the financing of election campaigns. The decision, which has just been made public in the Official Bulletin, provides details for each election scheduled for next September and October, where Morocco must renew all elected bodies.
The Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM ) is sure to win the next elections. This is what its Secretary General, Abdellatif Ouahbi , affirmed during his appearance on Sunday evening on the Medi1 TV channel, going so far as to promise to "create the surprise".
In this context of the Covid-19 pandemic, Morocco is determined to secure its territory during Eid al-Adha and the electoral deadlines. In this sense, the services of the Ministry of the Interior, the national police, civil protection, the Royal Gendarmerie and the auxiliary forces have developed a comprehensive plan.
The debacle of the National Union of Labor in Morocco (UNTM), the trade union arm of the Party of Justice and Development (PJD), in the professional elections is confirmed. It definitively loses its status as a representative union and has little chance of being represented in the second chamber.
45% of young Moroccans do not trust political parties. This is what a survey has just confirmed, stating that they are very numerous not to belong to any of the 34 parties participating in the elections that will take place in the very near future.
In Morocco , an early election campaign is emerging on the horizon. A few weeks before Eid Al-Adha, election professionals have concluded contracts with sheep breeders to distribute livestock to their client-voters.
For wearing the veil as president of a polling station on Sunday, during the first round of the departmental elections, Rachida Kabbouri, an EELV municipal councilor in Vitry-sur-Seine, was the victim of verbal aggression by voters, before being replaced by an assessor. The prefect considered that, in accordance with the law, she had to show neutrality and not wear any religious symbol.
Designated candidate of the Socialist Party (PS), the Franco-Moroccan Lamia El Aaraje won Sunday, June 6, the partial legislative elections in the 15th constituency of Paris. Elections marked by a high abstention rate.
The Head of Government, Saad Dine El Otmani, has informed the ministers of new instructions from King Mohammed VI as the term of the government team approaches its end.
A few months before the elections, elected officials are desperately trying to gain the trust of the inhabitants of the province of Berrechid through dishonest means. They deprive some inhabitants of electricity, while diverting it for the benefit of others. An investigation into a massive "theft" of electricity is underway.