Abdelilah Benkirane

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• Former Moroccan PM Urges Algeria to Mend Ties with Morocco, Heed King’s Outreach
  24 May 2024, by Sylvanus

  Abdelilah Benkirane, Secretary General of the Party of Justice and Development, invites Algeria to accept the outstretched hand of King Mohammed VI, and also calls on Algerian leaders to "adopt a logic of reconciliation".
  Abdelilah Benkirane is in favor of the warming of relations between Morocco and Algeria, which unilaterally cut ties with its neighbor in 2021. "Listen to me well, we need to be one nation, because it is imperative to achieve a rational unity from the Maghreb countries, (…)

• Moroccan Political Leader Condemns Rapper ElGrandeToto’s Influence on Youth
  14 September 2024, by Sylvanus

  Abdelilah Benkirane, Secretary General of the Party of Justice and Development (PJD), has strongly criticized ElGrandeToto for his alleged negative influence on Moroccan youth. In 2022, journalist and TV presenter Mohamed Tijini had filed a complaint against the Casablanca rapper for defamation, insults, death threats and indecency.
  On Thursday, Abdelilah Benkirane described ElGrandeToto as "scum" during the opening of the 18th national congress of the youth of the Party of Justice and (…)

• Moroccan Ex-PM Benkirane Reveals Multiple Resignation Attempts to King Mohammed VI
  17 September 2024, by Prince

  The Secretary General of the Party of Justice and Development (PJD), Abdelilah Benkirane, recently confided that he had repeatedly asked King Mohammed VI to dismiss him from his duties as Head of Government.
  "Without exaggerating, I will say that I have asked to be dismissed from the presidency of the government about five or six times...," Benkirane said during the gathering of the youth of his party in Bouznika last weekend. He claimed to have asked to leave after the outbreak of the (…)

• Moroccan Conservative Leader Criticizes LGBTQ Themes at Marrakech Film Festival
  8 December 2024, by Sylvanus

  The exaltation of homosexuality through the films selected for the 21st edition of the Marrakech International Film Festival, as well as the space given to Abdellah Taïa to publicly display his homosexuality, are not to the liking of Abdelilah Benkirane, Secretary General of the Party of Justice and Development (PJD) and former Prime Minister.
  "There are things that are inconceivable in a Muslim country, like what happened at the Marrakech Film Festival, where films exalting, in one way (…)

• Former Moroccan PM Claims Algeria Annexed Historic Moroccan Territories
  15 January, by Said

  Abdelilah Benkirane, a figure of the Party of Justice and Development (PJD) and former Moroccan Prime Minister, made statements that should not please Algeria.
  During a meeting of his party, he claimed that France had proposed to Morocco, after its independence, to recover territories in the east of the country, annexed to Algeria during colonization.
  According to Benkirane, these areas, including Tindouf, Touat and Hassi Beïda, were historically Moroccan and populated by Moroccans. He (…)