In the perspective of the upcoming elections, the Party of Justice and Development (PJD) and the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) held, on Saturday, July 24 at the central headquarters of the Islamist party in Rabat, a consultation meeting attended by Saâdeddine El Othmani and Abdellatif Ouahbi. Will an alliance be formed between the two parties?
A member of parliament from the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) and the party’s regional coordinator in the city of Oulad Tayyeb were assaulted in the Fès region during this pre-election period. An assault condemned by the Party of Progress and Socialism (PPS), the Istiqlal Party (PI), the Party of Justice and Development (PJD) and the Popular Movement (MP).
Abdelilah Benkirane, former Head of Government and former Secretary General of the Justice and Development Party (PJD) could run in the next legislative elections to be held next September. The local general assembly of the party has appointed him as head of the PJD list in Salé .
The battle for the legislative and local elections has started in Parliament. Challenging the electoral quotient voted by the majority of elected officials, the Party of Justice and Development (PJD) spoke up on Monday to denounce what it considers to be "support" in favor of its opponents. Its allies believe that this is still a "logic of lamentations".
As the elections scheduled for September 8 approach, presidents of municipalities led by the PJD, the PAM and various other parties are threatened with dismissal and legal proceedings. The General Inspectorate of the Ministry of the Interior has identified multiple violations and dysfunctions in their management.
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.
Mosques are prohibited from getting involved in political disputes. This is what the Minister of Endowments affirmed this week, telling Islamist deputies, as well as parties, that they must avoid, on the eve of the elections, seducing imams and other religious officials.
The debacle of the National Union of Labor in Morocco (UNTM), the trade union arm of the Party of Justice and Development (PJD), in the professional elections is confirmed. It definitively loses its status as a representative union and has little chance of being represented in the second chamber.
The president of the Moroccan Network of the Civic Alliance of Youth, Abdelouahed Zayat, filed a complaint against the head of government, Saâdeddine El Othmani, also boss of the PJD, for non-compliance with the preventive measures enacted to curb the spread of the coronavirus and its variants in the kingdom. Last week, he received the leader of the Palestinian Hamas movement, Ismail Haniyeh, without respecting physical distancing and mandatory mask wearing.
The president of the Moroccan Sahara commission within the Party of Justice and Development (PJD), Mustapha El Khalfi, remains very critical of Spain, which would be playing a vague game on the Sahara issue. He declared during a study day on the migration crisis that the strengthened Moroccan diplomacy, supported by the support of the United States, can lead to a turnaround of the situation of the cities of Sebta and Melilla .
After months of absence, the Minister of State in charge of Human Rights and Relations with Parliament, Mustapha Ramid is said to have submitted his resignation from the PJD to Saad-Eddine El Othmani.
The government led by Saâd Eddine El Othmani narrowly escaped a motion of censure prepared by the opposition parties (PAM, Istiqlal and PPS).