Morocco’s 20-Year Transformation: Le Point Magazine Highlights Kingdom’s Progress Under King Mohammed VI

"Multiparty system", "good political choices". Making a comparison with its neighbor, Algeria, Le Point makes a laudatory assessment of the Sherifian Kingdom.

20 years ago, King Mohammed VI acceded to the throne. At that time, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the President who resigned on April 2, 2019 under the pressure of a popular revolution demanding the end of his reign, had taken the reins of Algeria.

After twenty years, Le Point notes the existence of a "contrast" between the two countries which were, at the time, "each on their side, on the eve of a renewal". In its description, the magazine states: "Mohammed VI led Morocco haltingly on the path of modernity and an assumed economic liberalism. Bouteflika restored concord in Algeria after a decade of civil war, then he stopped there".

For the French weekly, the advantage of Morocco is that it is a country laden with a centuries-old history, of "good political choices", even if, notes Le Point, the Kingdom "has few natural resources at its disposal, apart from phosphates" and that its economy suffers from "the informal sector".

Economically, Le Point notes significant progress, particularly the rapid industrialization of the north of the country, around the large port of Tanger-Med, which has become "the largest port in Africa" in a few years, with increased capacity.

Politically, the magazine notes that the opening of the way to a multiparty system in the 1930s, long before independence in 1956, and the adoption of the 2011 Constitution by referendum, are remarkable advances.