Friday, March 11, 2011

Young February 20 suspicious of reforms and continue to manifest

No turning back. Youth Movement of February 20 are not budge despite the constitutional reform announced by Mohamed VI. And keep calling the Moroccan people to demonstrate in the 'long march' to be convened within ten days to continue raising his voice in favor of a "true democracy" in Morocco, said on the phone to a spokesman of the group, Nizar Benamate.

In his address to the nation, the monarch Alawi set the roadmap for reform of the Magna Carta and added that "consecrate the appointment of the Prime Minister presented by the political party which has obtained the best results in elections to the House of Deputies "(now is the monarch who appointed him), and" assume fully the responsibility of government and public administration, in addition to direct and implement the government program.

" He also announced new powers for Parliament, "enabling it to exercise its functions of representation, legislation and control." And that justice should be "an independent power." Changes, by order of the monarch, will be considered by a committee chaired by the constitutional Abdelatif Mennouni and whose conclusions will be presented next June for submission to a referendum.

Mohamed VI's speech has been hailed as a "distinct change in their formulations" by the young protesters, "but the commission set up by the king not derived from the popular legitimacy, it is totally one-sided" believes Benamate, adding that is not develop clear what role the monarchy and whether demand will be like them in parliament.

In his view, the time that the king has given the commission to discuss reforms "is not enough to make pedagogical work with the Moroccan people to internalize the democratic change." Some of the organizations that support youth in their first demonstration on February 20 made out to thousands of Moroccans into the streets of most of the country, have already shown their support to continue with the protests and expressed caution and skepticism respect to the king's speech.

Among them, the Moroccan Islamist movement Justice and Spirituality Benamate coincided with the announced reform that does not meet the demands of youth and the need to create a constituent assembly to carry out the transformations. "There has not spoken civil rights, or whether the media remain under the hegemony of power or the release of political prisoners, is confident the president of the Moroccan Human Rights Association (AMDH), Khadija Riadi.

Riadi remarks that no reference was made to the sacred nature of the constitution gives the monarch, and that is not specified whether the new powers of the prime minister will control the Army and other security agencies or whether they continue to escape the government. Neither left formations like the Milky Democratic reforms have been considered sufficient.

However, most other Moroccan parties that have endorsed the speech. For the Authenticity and Modernity Party (Pam), known in Morocco as the friend of the King (in reference to its founder, Fuad Ali Himma), is a "radical" and "irreversible consecration" of the country's modernization. Moreover, in his speech, the monarch also referred to the proposed regionalization of the country advanced, who want to start by the Western Sahara, a territory that is disputed within the United Nations (UN) Morocco and the Frente Polisario.

The chairman of the Advisory Committee on Regionalization (CCR) in Morocco, Omar Azziman, said in a press conference that regionalization in Western Sahara will be a "transitional stage" towards autonomy for the area proposed in the UN. If not reached a consensus before the Polisario Front, has said Azziman, you will be first the status of "advanced regionalization." "Nobody can say today which way we started." Azziman, former Moroccan ambassador to Spain, but could not say more specific issues on regionalization as whether to allow or not the creation of regional political parties in the future state model, which could open the door to the establishment of training contrary to the Moroccan position on Western Sahara.

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