Moderate Islamist Party Winning Morocco Election
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/world/africa/moderate-islamist-party-winning-morocco-election.html?_r=1&ref=world
This weekend in Morocco, the Justice and Development Party won its first plurality vote since the country's new Constitution has been put into effect. Protests last spring supporting a push towards democracy has since then led to a newly drafted and approved constitution, created by Morocco's King, Mohammed VI. The constitution allows for only a slightly more popular government. The king, however, has the power to choose a prime minster and possesses power in religious and military arenas. This has leaders of the movement boycotting and resisting to vote, yet the turnout suggests that many Moroccans support the king's decisions of the constitution.
Mercedes Tate
John 11 a.m.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/world/africa/moderate-islamist-party-winning-morocco-election.html?_r=1&ref=world
This weekend in Morocco, the Justice and Development Party won its first plurality vote since the country's new Constitution has been put into effect. Protests last spring supporting a push towards democracy has since then led to a newly drafted and approved constitution, created by Morocco's King, Mohammed VI. The constitution allows for only a slightly more popular government. The king, however, has the power to choose a prime minster and possesses power in religious and military arenas. This has leaders of the movement boycotting and resisting to vote, yet the turnout suggests that many Moroccans support the king's decisions of the constitution.
Mercedes Tate
John 11 a.m.
This isn't really surprising. This should be a cause for concern rather than celebration. It just means that more autocrats are seeking to maintain their strangle hold on their people.
ReplyDeleteIt's almost better if they don't do anything and the leadership is broken and a new order can take its place.
Zachary Tolan
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