Youth Uprising Rocks Morocco: GenZ Demands Government Dissolution

Apparently, GenZ 212 does not believe in the government that says it is willing to "respond to the social demands" of young people and "to dialogue". On Friday, it asked King Mohammed VI to dissolve the government. "We demand the dissolution of the current government for its failure to protect the constitutional rights of Moroccans and to respond to their social demands," said the GenZ 212 collective, on Discord, in a statement addressed to the King of Morocco, Mohammed VI.

Since Saturday, this recently created digital group, with 150,000 members, has been organizing demonstrations in the cities of Tiznit, Inzegane and Ait Amira, in the south of the country, as well as in the city of Oujda, in the east, and in Temara, near the capital Rabat. The demands of this group mainly concern issues of education, health, employment and social justice. The death in the public hospital in Agadir of eight pregnant women admitted for caesarean sections is at the origin of the triggering of these social demonstrations. "The people want health and education," chanted dozens of protesters waving Moroccan flags in the commercial district of Agdal, in the center of Rabat on Thursday.

Young people also demonstrated in other cities such as Casablanca, Marrakech and Agadir. Other slogans: "We don’t want the World Cup, health is a priority" or "The people want an end to corruption" or "Freedom, dignity and social justice". The kingdom is marked by strong territorial inequalities and between the public and private systems. Unfortunately, deaths were recorded in the night from Wednesday to Thursday. Three people were killed by gendarmes "in self-defense", as they were trying to "storm" a gendarmerie brigade in the south of the country, said Rachid El Khalfi, spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior.