Mohammed Moussaoui, former president of the French Council of Muslim Faith (CFCM), was elected Sunday at the head of this institution for a period of two years, announced the board of directors. This 55-year-old Franco-Moroccan was elected with 60 votes “for”, 7 abstentions. The board of directors has a total of 87 members.
He was the only competitor, after the withdrawal on Saturday of the candidacy of Chems-Eddine Hafiz, just elected new rector of the Great Mosque of Paris (GMP, close to Algeria) and who had called to support Mohammed Moussaoui, president of the Union of French Mosques (UMF, close to Morocco).
"Common and consensual list"
"There was a good will from all the components to leave on a common and consensual list (…) This allowed a composition of the office which I hope will be able to face the challenges which are ours", declared the new president to the press. The two vice-presidents are Chems-Eddine Hafiz and Ibrahim Alci (CCMTF federation, close to Turkey). They will be respectively presidents in 2022 and in 2024.
The RMF, another federation close to Morocco, which did not take part in the vote, does not appear among the members of the bureau nor at the head of the ten commissions created (commissions at mosques, imams, legal, etc.) to set up the program wanted by Mohammed Moussaoui. The UMF is the federation that won the most elected representatives (18 out of 45) during the first stage of the elections, which took place at the regional level in November.
Mohammed Moussaoui, son of a teacher born in 1964 in Figuig (east of Morocco), was already president of the CFCM from 2008 to 2013. A graduate of the Mohammed V faculty in Rabat, he left Morocco at the age of 22 years for Montpellier, where he passed the aggregation in mathematics, before becoming a lecturer at the University of Avignon. He was naturalized in 2008. He had a theological training in traditional schools in the East region of Morocco, mainly in the city of Oujda. In France, he assured Friday sermons in several mosques, among others in Montpellier then Avignon.
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