Morocco’s Moderates and the Chances of Reform
August 5th, 2008 by Adam
Shadi Hamid, POMED’s Director of Research, writes at Democracy Arsenal that, Abdelilah Benkirane, the recently elected leader of Morocco’s PJD, is indicative of the problems plaguing democratic reform in the region. Benkirane is a referred to as a “moderate,” but Hamid refers to him as traditionalist that is unwilling to upset the status quo. He is only called a “moderate” because he is unwilling to criticize the monarchy, the biggest impediment to Morocco becoming a democracy. Hamid claims that unless Morocco’s opposition is willing to drop its non-confrontational attitude towards the monarchy than it will lose its chance to be an important player in moving ahead political reform.
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August 6th, 2008 at 5:51 am
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i don’t now what heppend here, I sicerly don’t think that the democracy is linked to the monarchy opposition(why?)
who is behind this democratical process in morocco ‘ it’s not a secret ‘The King’ so i don’t think that the democracy in morocco will suffer if one or other party drop his opposition to the king, if you ask the Moroccans ‘as I am’ you will see that we want to keep the constitutional monarchy, why?
because no one obliged or forced USA or Europe to fallow thier own democraticel system.
Morocco is in a long democratisation process, if you study the other democracies, you will see that it tooks them a lot of time to finish the process.