"When I learned of the decision, I thought a lot about leaving the party, because I no longer feel that I am honored to belong to a party whose secretary-general is taking this decision," the former head of the Moroccan government, Abdel-Ilah Benkirane, told his party colleagues in unprecedented descriptions. The case of "Education France".
The angry speech - in which Benkirane used words that were described as strong - came after a vote by the Justice and Development deputies to abstain when a parliamentary committee in the Moroccan parliament (the first chamber of parliament) recently approved by majority of a bill to reform education.
In violation of the decision of the General Secretariat of the party, only two members voted against the draft law, the reciter Idrissi Abu Zeid and Mohammed al-Othmani, and are expected to take disciplinary action against them.
He allowed the committee to pass the bill, saying that he had lived "one of the worst nights" when he heard what had happened. He considered the move to be the first serious mistake committed by the party since it entered the spiral of measure Government in 2011.
In favor of Article II deputies of the government majority except for the Parliamentary Bloc of Justice and Development (the leader of the coalition government), and also voted on this article Deputies of originality and contemporary (opposition), and abstained from voting the deputies of the AKP and independence (opposition).
Article 2 of the Education Reform Act provides for "the adoption of linguistic rotation, by teaching certain scientific and technical subjects, or parts of certain articles in a language or in foreign languages."
The joke of time
Benkirane described what happened as "the joke of time" and "the scandal", as "How can a party with an Islamic reference to abandon Arabic in education and replace it with the language of colonialism? This is a scandal."
Commenting on the talk of some party leaders about the existence of strong pressure on the party to accept the passage of the bill not to vote by rejecting, which would have been dropped, Benkirane announced that the political work is full of various pressures to force a party to make concessions, but stressed that waiver within the estimates Political process is possible provided that it does not affect the principles.
For example, the pressure exerted on the organization after the terrorist attacks of 16 May 2003 in Casablanca, Morocco, where the state asked the party to abandon the Islamic authority, refused, although accepted by political concessions such as non-candidacy in all constituencies, for example in the municipal elections later .
"We are not people who show loyalty to the monarchy," Benkirane said. "The party stood with the country at the time of distress, as happened after the outbreak of the Arab Spring, when he and all party leaders refused to participate in the protests of February 20, 2011 in order to preserve property and security. The country and its stability, where King Mohammed VI in March of the same year to take major reform steps, the most important amendment of the Constitution and grant the Prime Minister important powers, along with other rights and political gains.
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illegality
"When they pass the bill in the general parliament session, they will have no reason to stay in the government, because the legitimacy they obtained through the votes of the voters ended with abandoning the principle," Benkirane told his party colleagues.
And after ratification within the House of Representatives, the bill is expected to be presented for discussion and vote in a plenary session of the Parliament to be held later.
Benkirane accused his colleagues of bypassing the institutions by not rejecting the bill. They had to go back to the party's National Congress because it is the party's principles, including the Arabic language, and therefore has the authority to change those principles rather than the general secretariat of the organization.
Benkirane considered the draft resolution "a disaster for public education in Morocco," stressing that teaching live languages is necessary and necessary, but not at the expense of Arabic.
He said that the struggles of prominent scientists and political leaders to strengthen the elements of national identity and to thwart the schemes of French colonialism are in the wind, because of the replacement of French in Arabic in the teaching of scientific materials, and may be followed by other materials.
Benkirane's remarks provoked a strong reaction within the AKP and his political opponents. The party's current secretary-general and Prime Minister Saad Eddin Othmani made a statement in response to Benkirane's statement that the party was a party of institutions and not individuals.
He also stressed that justice and development "is a party based on clear principles and reference, and will always be faithful to its principles and orientations established in its national laws in its comprehensive sense and ownership."
He pointed to their adherence to those principles and bite "on them and we will defend them in a desperate way."