The police arrested today a former MP from the Istiqlal Party, suspected of having used his service passport as a parliamentarian while he had lost his status as a deputy. The man was in a state of intoxication .
The statements of the President of the House of Councilors, Ennam Mayara (Istiqlal), on the Moroccanness of Ceuta and Melilla sparked a major outrage within the royal palace. Nizar Baraka, the party’s secretary general, is trying to correct the situation.
In response to the recent statement by the President of the Chamber of Advisors (Senate) that Morocco "will end up claiming Ceuta and Melilla", Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles reiterated on Monday that the two autonomous cities are "Spanish".
The reforms of individual freedoms laws initiated by the Minister of Justice, Abdellatif Ouahbi, are far from unanimous. After the Party of Justice and Development (PJD) , the opposition party, it is the turn of the Istiqlal party, a member of the governing coalition, to take a critical look at these reforms.
The President of the House of Advisors and member of the executive bureau of Istiqlal, Enaam Mayara, declared on Friday that Morocco will eventually "recover the two occupied cities of Ceuta and Melilla", calling on Moroccans residing in Spain to form a "lobby" to help defend the homeland.
The Istiqlal Party (PI) calls for the removal of French appellations from Moroccan streets. Its parliamentary group in the House of Representatives is asking the Minister of the Interior to replace them with the names of Moroccan figures.
An Istiqlal party parliamentarian was heard as part of an investigation into an international drug trafficking attempt thwarted by customs services in April 2022. A construction company had tried to smuggle cannabis in soap cartons.
Parliamentarians unanimously adopted a bill on the Moroccan Nationality Code, which involves knowledge of the Amazigh language as a criterion for obtaining nationality.
The House of Representatives has just adopted a bill on the Moroccan Nationality Code . This new law sets the conditions that any person wishing to obtain citizenship must meet.
Following the adoption of the draft law on the legal use of cannabis, several foreign investors are expressing interest in investing in this field in Morocco. More than a dozen of them are awaiting their authorizations , according to Istiqlal MP Noureddine Mediane.
Former Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki spoke again on the diplomatic rift between Rabat and Tunis , saying that the current chill between the two countries should not last.
After Ensemble pour la Catalogne chaired by Carlos Puigdemont, former president of the Generalitat of Catalonia, the Istiqlal Party (PI), it is the turn of the Party of Progress and Socialism (PPS) to call on Morocco to recover Ceuta and Melilla. The subject will be discussed at its next congress.