Belgian-Moroccan Politician Emerges as Key Figure in MR Party’s Outreach to Moroccan Community

Very dynamic and endowed with a good sense of social relations, Amin El Boujdaini, MR municipal councilor in Anderlecht and "delegate to civil society" at the national level of the MR, is working hard in Brussels to seduce the electorate of Moroccan origin in favor of his party. The young man opens doors to MR leaders he is very close to, Georges-Louis Bouchez, the president, and David Leisterh, head of the Brussels federation and group leader in the Brussels parliament, reports La Libre.

Last May, El Boujdaini accompanied the two leaders to Morocco. "It is a pleasure for me to introduce you to my beautiful country. Thank you for accepting this invitation. I am sure this is the first of a long series of trips," he wrote on social media, captioning a group photo with Bouchez and Leisterh. We see him in another photo posted on November 9 in the company of Leisterh and the Moroccan ambassador at the celebration of the anniversary of the Green March at the Moroccan consulate. "A dual nationality, it is above all a dual culture, enriching each other without forgetting where we come from," he indicated.

At the invitation of Morocco, Amin El Boujdaini led a delegation of several Brussels MR deputies, including David Leisterh, to the Sahara. The photo of this trip was also shared on social media. This unifying work led by the Belgian-Moroccan is highly appreciated. "For more than a year, Amin El Boudjaini has been in all the corners of Brussels where we have disappointed: Molenbeek, Anderlecht... He schedules appointments, meetings... He is the link to the communities. Candidates from diversity have never really worked well on our electoral lists. So the job done by Amin is still necessary," declares a liberal.

For some elected officials of the Brussels federation of the MR, this liberal political line towards the Belgian-Moroccan community is becoming worrying. "What’s the point of being in the MR if it’s to sink into the ’communitarianism’ and ethnic electoralism of the left-wing parties," wonders a liberal. "The MR has no community strategy. It’s my job to get out of my office often and reopen the dialogue with everyone, including second or third generation Belgians from immigration who invite me... The real communitarianism would be not to dare to talk about my project to a community," explains David Leisterh.