Elections

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• Muslim-Led Political Party Launches Campaign for French Municipal Elections
  3 December 2019, by Rédacteur

  The leaders of the Union of French Muslim Democrats presented on Sunday in Clichy some of their top candidates for the 2020 municipal elections, in front of about 80 residents from across the Paris region.
  The Union of French Muslim Democrats has decided to "Act to no longer suffer" by launching on Sunday in Clichy its election campaign for the March 2020 municipal elections. This "secular" micro-party hopes to present about fifty lists. The participants in this meeting were composed of a (…)

• Historic First: Woman Elected Leader of Moroccan Soulaliyate Community
  30 December 2019, by Ginette

  This is the first time that a woman has taken the lead of the Soulaliyate community of Ouled Ahmed Souk Larbaa. She is Rabia Assoul Bent Abd Essalam Ben Bouslam, who owes her election to her fight for the emancipation of women. It is thanks to her leadership that her peers have entrusted her with the destiny of the community.
  Since the history of the Soulaliyate communities, never has a woman been chosen as the head. It is therefore a chance for Rabia Assoul, a sewing equipment merchant (…)

• Deadline Approaches for Moroccan Voter Registration, Youth Urged to Act
  14 January 2020, by Bladi.net

  Moroccan citizens of voting age are invited to register with the offices of the local administrative authority or online before January 24.
  Young people who have not yet registered on the general electoral rolls, in particular those who meet the legal requirements and were unable to submit their registration applications on these rolls before the end of December 2019, are invited to do so from January 14 to 24, according to a statement from the Ministry of the Interior.
  Furthermore, the (…)

• Far-Right Party Criticizes Veiled Candidate on Centrist List in Marseille Election
  3 March 2020, by Sylvanus

  The RN head of the municipal list, Stéphane Ravier, criticizes the candidacy of Sarah Labidi, a veiled woman, present on the LREM list in the 1st sector of the city of Bouches-du-Rhône (1st and 7th arrondissements) in Marseille.
  Stéphane Ravier mocks: "This is a very particular conception of secularism that La République En Marche is delivering to us!" "Especially on the eve of the denunciation of Islamic ’separatism’ by Emmanuel Macron, and after Jean-Michel Blanquer considered that the (…)

• Amazigh Groups in Morocco Shift Strategy, Prepare for 2021 Elections
  8 March 2020, by Sylvanus

  The era of boycotting elections is over. Amazigh movements are considering a Front for Political Action, with a view to participating in the legislative, local and regional elections in 2021.
  "Today, the time of boycotting elections is over," declared the president of the World Amazigh Assembly (AMA), Rachid Raha. Convinced of this, he called on all Amazigh activists to register on the electoral lists. He is convinced that political participation and voting are the only means that will (…)

• Moroccan Islamist Party PJD Seeks Larger Share of Political Funding
  18 March 2020, by Bladi.net

  The Party of Justice and Development (PJD) is currently fighting to try to seize a large share of the public subsidies dedicated to political parties.
  The PJD has defined discriminatory criteria with a view to stifling small political formations to take the lion’s share. The eyes of all political parties are turned to the Ministry of the Interior for the granting of a subsidy, pending those they are to receive to finance the election campaigns of the 2021 elections.
  According to (…)

• Morocco Launches Aerial Insecticide Campaign to Combat Mosquito Surge in Northern Cities
  9 May 2020, by Bladi.net

  In northern Morocco, elected officials are engaged in a real war around the mosquito control initiative launched by the state in the various cities of this region of the kingdom. The initiative, which consists of spraying insecticides by plane, is the subject of political recovery in the perspective of the upcoming elections. Yet it is to respond to the grievances of the inhabitants that the authorities have set up a system to fight against mosquitoes in infested areas. Each of the elected (…)

• Reality TV Star Afida Turner Announces Surprise French Presidential Bid
  2 June 2020, by Sylvanus

  The former Loft Story candidate, Afida Turner, 43, announces her candidacy for the 2022 presidential election after that of the comedian, Jean-Marie Bigard. She dreams of becoming the President of the French Republic.
  "Dear fans, dear French people, I announce my candidacy for the presidency in order to remedy the problems of the yellow vests and, moreover, this violent police," writes the Franco-American actress on Twitter from the United States where she is confined... far from the (…)

• Franco-Moroccan Politician Elected Mayor of Saint-Ouen, Shifting City Left
  29 June 2020, by Sylvanus

  With 38.09% of the votes, the Franco-Moroccan Karim Bouamrane, 47, is elected the new mayor of Saint-Ouen, replacing William Delannoy (UDI). He managed to swing the city back to the left, six years after the election of his predecessor.
  At the end of the second round of the municipal elections, Karim Bouamrane obtained 38.09%, thus beating the outgoing mayor, William Delannoy (32.53%) and the candidate Denis Vemclefs supported by the PCF and the former FG mayor, Jacqueline Rouillon (…)

• Moroccan Chamber Elections Marred by Widespread Irregularities, MPs Allege
  18 July 2020, by Sylvanus

  Many irregularities were recorded during the elections of the professional chambers of commerce, industry, services, agriculture and maritime fisheries.
  Falsification of voter cards, voting of the dead... Deputies from the RNI, UC, PJD, MP, PAM and Istiqlal parties claim to have noted many irregularities during the elections of the professional chambers of commerce, industry, services, agriculture and maritime fisheries, reports Assabah. For example, a merchant who has changed profession (…)