Morocco Considers Expanding Parliament Amid Corruption Concerns

In the perspective of an increase in the number of seats in the House of Representatives, the war of accreditations is open within the political parties, particularly in the colleges of the major electors. These candidates would have received the approval of the leaderships of certain political parties to lead lists, in local electoral constituencies, reports Al Massae, adding that these candidates, accused in 2016 of electoral corruption, are among the 26 people retained by the government commission responsible for monitoring the elections, at the end of the last legislative elections. The file is on the desk of the investigating judge in charge of financial crimes.

The same source cites, without naming him, the case of a parliamentarian in the Rabat-Salé-Kénitra region, who is fighting to return to parliament, he who, for having failed to convince the judge that he was not involved in the purchase of votes for huge sums of money, saw his seat canceled.

The list of these dirty candidates includes other major electors involved in financial scandals and other crimes, some of whom are still before the courts, concludes the newspaper.