Morocco pressured to step up reforms
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RABAT — Emboldened by the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, demands for political reforms are now mounting in Morocco, touching even the country’s monarchy.
“Many believe that a constitutional reform, allowing Morocco to benefit from more modern institutions, is necessary,” economist and analyst Driss Benali said of a phenomenon that might ultimately decrease the monarch’s power.
The voices include those from one of Morocco’s leading Islamist movements, Justice and Charity, which has called for “urgent democratic change.”
“It is unjust that the country’s riches should be monopolized by a minority,” the movement, which is banned but tolerated here, wrote on its Web site..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110211com6.html
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