Morocco’s Interior Minister to Meet Parties Amid Election Reform Debate

The Minister of the Interior had already taken a first step by meeting, in mid-August, the leaders of the opposition parties, namely Nizar Baraka (PI), Abdellatif Ouahbi (PAM) and Nabil Benabdellah (PPS). Through a joint memorandum, they have already made their proposals on the political and electoral reforms they consider necessary.

This is not the case with the components of the government coalition, which so far do not have a common reform project. This lack of government solidarity is still giving the Minister of the Interior some work to do.

According to some sources, the epidemiological situation in Morocco is not absent from the debates, particularly within the government coalition, after the exponential increase in coronavirus contamination cases and the royal speech that insisted on the prevalence of the safety of citizens, before any other consideration.

Already, the idea of postponing the elections is increasingly stirring within the political class and public opinion, even if some parties do not speak of it, for fear of being accused of wanting to flee the electoral confrontations.