Moroccan Constitutional Court Ousts 10 MPs for Conflicting Roles

These decisions of the sages date from November 4. These are the first published since the end of the elections, out of a total of 62 electoral appeals announced, reports Al Ahdath Al Maghribia. In the list of deposed parliamentarians, we also find presidents of local authorities. However, this is no longer a surprise for some who expected such a decision.

These are the deputies of the Istiqlal party Abdelouahed El Ansari and El Khattat Yanja, elected respectively at the head of the regional councils of Dakhla-Oued Eddahab and Fès-Meknès. PAM deputies Rachid El Abdi and Adil Barakat lost their seats due to their election to the presidency of the regional councils of Rabat-Salé-Kénitra and Béni Mellal-Khénifra. And finally, RNI deputies Omar Mourou and Karim Achenkli, elected respectively to the regional councils of Tanger-Tétouan-Al Hoceima and Souss-Massa.

Other elected officials, on the other hand, have fallen victim to the latest electoral reform. A new provision prohibits the combination of the parliamentary mandate with the presidency of a municipality with more than 300,000 inhabitants. Elected on the local constituency of Salé-El Jadida (legislative), Omar Sentissi had simultaneously won a seat in the municipal elections before his election, on September 20, to the head of the Salé municipal council.

In this register, we also cite Rachid Tamek elected to the presidency of the provincial council of Assazag, Jaouad Gharbi, president of the provincial council of Kénitra and Said Naciri, president of the prefectural council of Casablanca, who also suffer from the incompatibility of their new missions with those of parliamentarians.

It is the candidates who came in second after these last ones who will inherit their positions, specifies the constitutional court.