The French people in Morocco placed outgoing President Emmanuel Macron far ahead of the Rassemblement National (RN) candidate Marine Le Pen for this second round of the 2022 presidential election.
Like some Muslim organizations, the Council of Mosques of France (CMR) calls on Muslims "to go to the polls in conscience" against the far right, on April 24, where the second round of the presidential election will be held. A remake of 2017: outgoing President Emmanuel Macron and National Rally candidate Marine Le Pen will face off again.
While the candidates for the French presidential election are counting on the votes of the French abroad, particularly in Morocco, the latter complain about this attitude which consists in thinking of them only during the elections, said M’jid El Guerrab, deputy of the 9th constituency of the French established in the Maghreb and West Africa.
The French president was moved by the death of Rayan , the 5-year-old child who accidentally fell into a dry well in Chefchaouen, near his home. Through a message on Facebook, Emmanuel Macron expressed his condolences to the family of the little boy, as well as to the Moroccan people.
Naoual Guéry, regional councilor of Normandy, has faced racist and sexist insults, after announcing her sponsorship for Emmanuel Macron in the next presidential election.
Yaïr Lapir, Israel’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, assures that no one has listened to the phone of French President Emmanuel Macron using the Pegasus software. This contradicts the accusations of espionage against Morocco.
Jack Lang has called on Emmanuel Macron to recognize the late Mohammed V as "Righteous Among the Nations" for his many actions in favor of protecting the Jewish community during the Vichy regime. The President of the Arab World Institute (IMA) made this statement during the official inauguration, on Monday, of the exhibition-event "The Jews of the East, a Millennia-Old History," in the presence of French President Emmanuel Macron.
Brigitte Macron received on Friday, from the hands of the President of the National Foundation of Museums of Morocco, Mehdi Qotbi, the catalog-book of the Eugène Delacroix exhibition, organized at the Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMVI) in Rabat.
French President Emmanuel Macron was in open dialogue last Friday with eleven young Africans from Morocco, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, or Mali, during the new-format Africa-France summit held in Montpellier, to which no African state was invited. On this occasion, he paid tribute to dual nationals.
In response to the drastic reduction of visas by France to Morocco and other countries, a collective of associations has described this decision as "electoralist" and "overbidding on the backs of North Africans".
During a reception organized at the Élysée on Thursday, September 30, French President Emmanuel Macron revealed the real reasons for tightening the granting of visas for Moroccans , Algerians and Tunisians.
While Algeria refuses any Arab mediation likely to end the tensions with Morocco, Noureddine Boukrouh, a former Algerian minister, political analyst and author, believes that France could play a decisive role in unblocking the situation.