Friday, March 11, 2011

Mohamed VI amends the Constitution and gives more power to parliament

Rabat. .- The King Mohamed VI of Morocco announced a major reform of the Constitution which includes, among other changes, the upgrading of the prime minister as "president of effective executive power" and expand the powers of Parliament. In a televised address to the nation, the monarch said he has entrusted the revision of the Constitution to a constitutional commission headed by Abdellatif Mennouni, which is due in June the results of their work, and then hold a referendum to approve the reform.

Mohamed VI said that the new constitution "will consecrate the appointment of the Prime Minister presented by the political party which has obtained the best results in elections to the Chamber of Deputies, where until now the king has the power to appoint the Chief Executive who wants it.

He added that the prime minister "takes full responsibility of government and public administration, in addition to direct and implement the government program." To Parliament, the constitutional reform "will expand its legal scope and confer new powers that enable it to exercise its functions of representation, legislation and control." The king's speech is framed within the implementation of the regionalization of the country called, starting from the Sahara and leave the power of new regions in the hands of the presidents of regional councils, instead of walis and Governors as the case hitherto.

Another key aspect of the reform will be "enhancing the role of political parties in the context of a genuine pluralism," "make justice independent power" and "constitutionalizing instruments of good governance and rights humans. " In his "road map" for a new constitution, Mohammed VI also said the Constitution "consecrate the plural nature of the Moroccan identity uniform and rich in the variety of its tributaries, where the Amazigh (Berber) occupies a central place "

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