Interior Minister Abdelouafi Laftit has been working hard for King Mohammed VI (M6) this summer reassuring voters that the general election on 23 September will feature candidates of higher moral and technical calibre with polls overseen by a media that is better regulated and increasingly sophisticated security services...
Other parties led by Union socialiste des forces populaires (USFP) premier secretary Driss Lachgar backed by Nizar Baraka's centre-right Parti de l'Istiqlal (PI) and the Parti du Progrès et du Socialisme (PPS) had asked Interior Minister Abdelouafi Laftit to add some 15 seats which was also ruled out...
Reports that royal appointee Interior Minister Abdelouafi Laftit had told parties that planned revisions to the electoral law were further delayed as 'the state' had to focus on the Sahara question and the upcoming coronavirus vaccination campaign signal where the palace's priorities lie...
Like other ministers appointed either as members of coalition parties or directly by M6 – such as Abdelouafi Laftit (Interior) and Nasser Bourita (Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation) – Akhannouch seems involved in a never-ending tussle with the PJD descending into shouting matches around the cabinet table...
Interior Minister Abdelouafi Laftit has also been busy delivering reports to M6 on other issues of local level management...
