PJD Accuses Rivals of Manipulating Electoral System Ahead of Moroccan Elections

"While we are on the eve of the legislative and local elections, we draw attention to the return to the same old methods and tools... we have only changed one party for another to give it all the necessary support so that it comes out on top in the elections and also to control the political landscape and this against the free expression of the popular will," said the president of the Lamp group, Mustapha Ibrahimi, during the debate on the government’s report.

In his statement relayed by Hespress, the PJD member points the finger at the National Rally of Independents (RNI), stressing that the electoral quotient is "undemocratic and unparalleled in the world, because it takes into account the dead, the emigrants, the absent, and those who boycott the election instead of the voters".

For the Islamist party, the electoral quotient will result in a "balkanization of the elected institutions where 16 to 20 political parties will sit, most of them without real popular weight, a situation that will lead to blackmail in the formation of councils and their governing bodies and to instability, and finally to the intervention of the territorial administration to lead the communities instead of the elected officials".

On the other hand, the group of the Constitutional Union (UC) in the House of Representatives rejected the accusations of its ally in the government, considering that they are part of a "logic of lamentation".