Vol 62 No 22 |
- NORTH AFRICA
The effect was clearest in Morocco's parliamentary elections in September when the PJD's Saad Eddine el Othmani was replaced at the head of government by a big business-focused administration under billionaire Aziz Akhannouch (AC Vol 62 No 19 A win for the Makhzen)...
The Parti de la Justice et du Développement (PJD) members of former Prime Minister Saad Eddine el Othmani's government suffered a string of policy humiliations as ministers aligned with King Mohammed VI (M6)'s ruling Makhzen (establishment) reasserted their dominance of Moroccan politics a decade after political reforms in the wake of the Arab Spring demonstrations in 2011...
The Islamist Parti de la Justice et du Développement (PJD) led by outgoing Prime Minister Saad Eddine el Othmani had been eviscerated in the elections...
Vol 62 No 12 |
- MOROCCO
- SPAIN
Prime Minister Saad Eddine el Othmani has a record of clumsy moves in foreign affairs – a brief period at the foreign affairs ministry led the King known as M6 to revert to naming the foreign minister himself in a dilution of the post-2011 constitutional arrangements...
The ruler and the ruling party's delicate balance Prime Minister Saad Eddine el Othmani is an Islamist leader whose loyalty to M6 is not doubted – unlike his charismatic predecessor Abdelilah Benkirane who as head of government from November 2011 to March 2017 achieved levels of popularity that troubled the Palace...
But the Israel/Palestine issue is being used by rivals of Prime Minister Saad Eddine el Othmani within the Parti de la justice et du développement to challenge him (AC Vol 62 No 1 Recovery and resistance)...
The head of government Saad Eddine el Othmani is expected to remain under pressure on one front from more radical opponents – including members of his own Parti de la justice et du développement (PJD) – and on the other from the king...
The MUR's political arm is the majority party of government led by Prime Minister Saad Eddine el Othmani the Parti de la justice et du développement (PJD) which was caught between supporting the King and expressing its displeasure at anything that might help 'Zionist occupation'...
Morocco may have had a good lockdown after King Mohammed VI (M6) pushed Prime Minister Saad Eddine el Othmani's government into forcing some 36 million non-essential workers to stay at home (AC Vol 61 No 7 King takes charge)...
The Palace rather than Prime Minister Saad Eddine el Othmani is running the coronavirus strategy...
