The campaign for the September 8 elections officially starts this Thursday, August 26. The deadline for filing candidatures ended yesterday in a context marked by the surge in Covid-19 cases.
The repatriation of unaccompanied Moroccan minors who arrived in Ceuta last May began this Friday, through the Tarajal border crossing. Morocco has given its approval for the start of this operation.
While rumors suggest a possible postponement of the communal and legislative elections due to the spread of the coronavirus in the kingdom, Abdelouafi Laftit , Minister of the Interior, reassures. These elections will indeed take place on September 8.
Following the elections of the Professional Chambers, which took place on Friday across the national territory, the National Rally of Independents (RNI) came out on top by winning 638 seats, or 28.61% of the votes.
The lawyer mandated by Morocco in the Pegasus affair launched a few days ago a procedure which gave ten days to Amnesty International and Forbidden Stories to transmit the evidence of their accusations . The ten days have elapsed and the expected evidence could not be transmitted, according to Me Olivier Baratelli, lawyer for Morocco.
The information that four elements of the Auxiliary Forces had clandestinely joined the city of Ceuta is false, the Ministry of the Interior has just denied, referring to an operation invented from scratch by ill-intentioned people.
Judicial offensive by Morocco following the accusations made against it for espionage via the Pegasus software. The Moroccan authorities have filed a complaint in France against the media that revealed or denounced the case.
The spread of the Delta variant in Morocco could not only disrupt election campaigns but also push the government to postpone the municipal, regional and parliamentary elections scheduled for September 8.
The Moroccan Ministry of the Interior has activated the emergency program for the supply of drinking water by tanker trucks for the year 2021. The heat wave and water shortages are plunging certain areas, especially rural ones, into a worrying water deficit.
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.
Faced with the worrying spread of the Indian Delta variant, the Minister of the Interior, Abdelouafi Laftit warns political parties that have been organizing meetings in recent weeks without taking into account health measures. He prohibits any meeting that does not respect these measures.
Some practices of the managers of the printing houses in charge of printing the vaccination passport in different regions of Morocco are not to the liking of the Minister of the Interior, Abdelouafi Laftit . He warns them against any falsification of the vaccination passport.