Legislative elections in Morocco: last day of a "sluggish" campaign
The King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, November 17, 2018. FADEL SENNA / AFP
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This Tuesday, September 7 marks the last day of the campaign in Morocco.
The legislative elections will take place on Wednesday, September 8, in the Cherifian kingdom.
Issue: the renewal of the House of Representatives in Rabat.
From the majority party will come the head of government.
An electoral campaign so far "sluggish", according to observers.
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Lassitude, disillusion and disinterest
", these are the words that come back the most in the mouths of observers of Moroccan politics on the eve of the election.
For the academic Omar Brouksy, even in Casablanca, a dynamic and bubbling city, this campaign was “
dull
”.
A candidate running in the economic capital admits that in the midst of a pandemic, meeting voters was "
very complicated
".
Prohibition of gatherings of more than 25 people, open fire from 9 pm… It was necessary to bet on door-to-door or even on social networks and massive sending of SMS.
However, the coronavirus is not the only cause.
Analysts all speak
of
"
the disappointed hopes
" of Moroccans who voted - all social classes combined - for the moderate Islamists of the PJD, in 2011, in the wake of the Arab Spring, and again in 2016, counting on him to put an end to it. corruption and favoritism.
But for Zakaria Garti, at the head of the political movement resulting from the civil society Maan, what distracts Moroccans from the elections is also the awareness that real power is elsewhere,
in the hands of the monarch and his entourage
.
These legislative elections are, for the first time, coupled with the municipal and regional ones.
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