Morocco’s Opposition Parties Push for Early Elections Amid Political Shift

Istiqlal, the Party of Progress and Socialism, and the Socialist Union of Popular Forces, would not see a change in a bad light, after ten years of domination by the Islamists. According to the daily Assabah, which devoted an entire file to this surge of political parties, rumors persist about the organization, during the winter of 2020, of early elections.

According to the three parties trying to rally together, as soon as Chakib Benmoussa submits his report on the new development model, a new majority will have to be formed immediately to implement the new roadmap and turn the page on the political deadlocks and divisions that have marked the two terms of the PJD at the head of the government.

To achieve this, Abdelkbir Zahoud of Istiqlal will now be the coordinator of this refloating of the Koutla. His mission will be to strengthen the USFP for the emergence of a new leadership, led by young executives, in the image of Reda Chami or Ali Bouabid.

But before these early elections, Article 47 of the Constitution will have to be amended to allow the king to choose the head of government from the party that came first in the elections or from any party that can form a homogeneous and comfortable majority.

Similarly, Sunday will replace Friday as the election day in order to remove the political connotation from the latter day. Among other demands made by the three Koutla parties, there is the new delineation of electoral districts and the change in the voting system.