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hello and welcome to a special inside story from morocco's capital robots. i'm bernard smith. on wednesday, millions of americans will vote in the 3rd elections following the spring more than 10 years ago. since then the socially conservative party of justice and development has led the government. but that looks set to change as a party considered close to the pilot, could win the larger shattered impulse. in a moment we'll meet our guests, but 1st i been out to meet some young americans. on the campaign trail. the it takes commitment and patience to canvass for votes in the moroccan town of satellite. it's becoming really hard to convince him to trust us as a youth. sophie, i'm fat as he's one of for the 1st time candidates in morocco's elections, who came of age during the arab spring more than a decade ago. they believe little has changed a view. it seems shared by the people that trying to persuade to vote. they don't believe in the election to those and all these sort of the elections,

they're like tire or the 5th they're on time. like see the same people the same to from the get elected. old people corrupted like like simple like the corruption instantly, the more than half the people in morocco believe corruption has got worse in the last 12 months. according to transparency international. the critic say it's hard to tackle when there's no accountability at the top. no new of evil, but we continue to live in an exception of despotism. for example, would say that it is essential to discuss the budget of the royal palace calling lot against the budget we can talk about. we say that the king should not be at the center of political life because those that are should be accountable to the public . king mohammed, the 6 appoints the government and those who don't tow the line. don't get very far . rashid, our eyes from morocco's institute for policy analysis, believes many people in morocco for what closely, what top of the neighboring countries since the hour of spring?

yeah, most ballpark is a majority of young voters who won't vote because they're not convinced by the way the game is played now. but don't forget that if one day we do manage to most of the game, we managed to control the leads and the street. perhaps they'll be convinced that we should go back to a much stronger talk receive these young politicians believe there is appetite change despite the risk is that we must have another referendum for a new constitution because in our comb one, there are many political unconstitutional imbalances. if we got majority in parliament would apply strong pressure for real constitutional reforms. the system designed to stop any party getting a majority. such radical policies are unlikely to get very far. ah, let's bring in august. but she too, too is professor communications at the national school of statistics and applied economics in robot. and also joining us is new found

a booed. he's executive director of the nordic center, a conflict transformation. and also a guest is elizabeth myers, a junk associate professor of law at american university in washington college of law. welcome to you will proceed to begin with you if i may. whoever wins this election has the most number of seats in parliament will have any real power. i think that to the living now in the moroccan environment, politically speaking, it's supposed 2011 elections after adopting the famous 2011 constitution where we think as politicians and researches the debt is more power to the executive branch headed by the to the government, but we see in the traditional framework where the king has an executive powers tool. so whoever, when they come in elections, we need a very charismatic, very powerful government as

a leader who will lead the whole government and negotiate with the king to listen to his powers and gain more powers in what we call the golden square of which is the palace ok, new fall, moroccans persuaded that is going to be worth voting. this is very important. time for morocco. it's after 10 years from the adoption of the constitution. that was, that came right after the out of frightens are the time. what is important also is the context in which direction comes within the international trends of democracy. it is a state of democracy report that has been released by the international institute for the more christian and look for assistance based in, in sweden. that actually says that the quality of democracy is decreasing. there is an erosion in political representation one wide and that they are covered. and amec is actually just limited in a lot of freedoms worldwide. what we are looking here to morocco is not really the

quality of the democratic process to be advanced, but actually to protect the, in the democratic institutions that were a fabulous and their block within the constitution. in 2011, we have seen nearby how democracy in elections has not really led to very much of democratic government to the region. where can you see, for example, as an example of that, we have seen the back slide of democracy to just a right after the suspension of the democrats constitution by the president himself . so what we are looking here is actually to limit the press hold of the backs laden, if there is any. and that can be done either by having. busy one, inclusion, and on the other side have been an institution that uses a unit of power with a counselor institution, which is the royal institution that actually limit the backslide them to changes within the political system in morocco. ok, well so it's

a new file suggesting that is important to protect whatever was one after the 20th february movement you think moroccans really believe is going to be any change whoever they vote for. unfortunately i really dont, i, i sort of circulation in a mix of the different levels and echelons of society here in morocco. and there are so many people who i spoken to who just have absolutely no interest in it because they see that there's no change coming whatsoever after to terms of the day party. they really feel that no matter who gets and is going to be more of the same . and there's a huge lack of trust, the moroccan institute for policy, just the issue, the trust index, and a huge lack of trust in the government and in elections themselves. and we see that also when there is corruption, for example, when people are paid for their votes,

and we see that all over the place in the, in the small doors new near me. and that's a lot of money, even though it's $150.00 jerome's, it's a lot of money to poor people. and that kind of corruption undermines the trust in the democratic process. unfortunately, russia, there is plenty of evidence to suggest that people are being paid to vote for particular parties. and we come to this election with this new law that going to allocate votes differently. essentially, most will be allocated on the number of people registered to vote was and those who actually are kept to vote is this just another way of trying to huddle b p j to the justice and development party that's been in power for the last we had a strong database and even very contentious debate before the adoption of the new york got organic law by the new government. unfortunately, you know, it has been adopted and the only party that has refused is the routing party. the

pity has completely refused changing the laws. what we call the, i think the electoral quotient ease ease in my eyes, a way to, to, to limit the potential power of the p g d. because if we've all taken into consideration the history of elections in morocco and it's just from 2011, we've witnessed that the page the got 1000000 in the house votes, which are the activists who it's a stagnant a block of votes that will both no matter what the p c d will rule will win or will fade in the come. so i think the, what we call in our be the asked him into the lecture question is directly man to limit the electoral power of the slam is in the rock. russia is what the palace and the king's advisors want to do. the interior minister to introduce this law, they want to stop the pgp. the justice development party advancing further in these

elections has to be realistic. you know, it's only when the election is over, that we can actually assess whether the electoral cautions was actually bent against to be against the p. c. d or not. what we know now is actually the reduces, the cold in politics has diminished its effect in morocco. second thing is that the electoral reform that has happened in morocco does not only concern the ex or cushions it can. some other things such as for example, the decomposition of the nationalists in favor of the regional list at the, at the parliament. which is that because of the women political representation of the parliament was actually very little of the parliament. the changes to use the reason or the list or local lists where the women representation is about 37 to 238 percent will be in the benefit of one women, political participation of the parliament. we increased, for example,

the deceased for women reserve the parliament from for example, we didn't the original list from $3.00 to $12.00 as a minimum. and there are other things. so what we are going to see actually now is more political participation as seats for women, especially the parliament when the 1st and 2nd 6, mandatory reserve for women. so the electoral reform does not only concern the electrical cushions. we need to wait and see because on the previous elections, there was a debate again about some extra lift and they said it was against them, but hit the process with democrats. next, it was voted for it. the v is continue to be engaged within the political system in morocco. this is politics in elections is a political process, highly political process, and it depends on publishing coalitions and, and negotiating the positions. ok. elizabeth,

this religious aspect to political parties to polish nebraska, has diminished a rush it as a new file says. but why this continues suspicion of the justice and development party, the king is not a found that there is this lingering suspicion. why come to take it all? well, they've been in power for 2 terms, right? they've won the past 2 elections since the new constitution came into effects. and a lot of people see that nothing's happened. very loose will happen. the only thing they've really seen is sort of the constitutional reforms that are in the document, right? but actually implementing those reforms is down to the government. so the question is, who, what is the best party? what is the best coalition? who are the best leaders to implement these reforms that are supposed to be implemented but not been implemented because they've not been allowed to implement them by the polished by the executive is not the problem. so i think that's a little beyond my, my pay grade to suggest that it would be because they're not allowed to. i think

that there is a lack of will to do it. i will hearken back to the king speech the for the 3 days speech. i think it was last year where the king was talking about, we need public servants in morocco who will serve the public. this is the problem. you have people who are being elected to government who are not interested in serving the public. they're more interested in getting, you know, their money or buying a villa or whatever the, whatever the, the end result of the corruption. there is is ok, a new file have been stopped from implementing policies when a bold, one of the issues that other political parties who are against the p g d, did not bring in is actually the evaluation of the terms off of the c d and leading the government, it hasn't been the case. and also what we have seen is how weak all the political parties are weak in terms of how to prepare policies within within the,

with the morocco. and that how this is the king and the king at the royal institution, the are preparing policy for this. and the 3rd thing is that the political campaign, of course, it was limited by the corporate 19 and the policy company. we still build the campaign based on promises and the moroccan are really tied promises that they want to see something concrete. they need to be engaging. they base about a correct debate and we're going to think the bit about the political delivery of government. unfortunately, all, all political parties did not provide something really realistic. what is, what is very important here. i know just like to, to, to comment on elizabeth, what is important. and i think it's, again in morocco is whatever we're talking about. it now is a part of a very engaged in social media, and we haven't witnessed something like this in social media, whether it's a good debate or negative. it is a debate and the same game. it's within the political. but i think i'd want to add,

though the result perhaps of the parliamentary type shuffles, where, where the king can sort of shuffle people around and remove them and put someone else in and all of. but i think that does serve impractical terms to hobble the government. to some degree, because the king has the ultimate say, as russia do you think we'll talk about the failure to implement policy? are they going to be punished at the polls by the like, i think just come into some comments of my colleague. you know, we forgot the to it also there was the organic love, the threshold like 3 percent was eliminated, which means that any political party in fact can join the the, you know, the game i've looked at the statistic just briefly, you know, only 4 big political parties could cover morocco, 100 percent, but when we go, the more we go down to regions and to low municipalities,

no political party could cover the whole of morocco. and here we see how the minister of interior proposed laws can in fact diminish the mobilization factors of any political party. coming to the fact that the bishop did did the evaluation. i agree with no full presented to the public. it's on facebook, it's everywhere. but how, how, there was no public debate about evaluating. and we should not forget that during the 2011 government led by been key. and there was a lot of obstacles put, you know, not to pass some laws with a member. the famous story of the huge house of the telecommunication, but the king himself interfered and called for the minister of communication in the palace to tell him stopped dead. it's not your prerogative would remember the story with notion with the minister of agriculture, the fame, so on. now, when he got 47000000 from the ministerial portfolio and bettina refused to sign,

but the king again interfered. tell him no. he has to have the signature. so i said, any political party in morocco historically cannot have big impact no matter what, you know. money is there no matter what political ideology or campaigning to the people because the palace has played and it is play in a big role in tammy and political parties and in control and the result, you know, we talked about money vote by you, which is unfortunately everywhere now, i attend every day campaign in a small rural area. it's every day jim gerrymandering. yes. you know, the minister of internal controls ok. the elections, the input and the output. and the car is magically the ship of the king being a mirror. and being an executive monarchy in the new constitution

really limits in a powerful change or impact. of course, i'd say the p d did what they could do, you know, they found in the but this is a political, the political structure is a problem that was very quickly i was going to ask you new father has the p j d. did it do what it could do, had it played it badly? could it have done better or was it just stuck? what, of course they can do better, and all of that is based on how to negotiate the power within the framework of a kingdom where the king has also varies from power. and also in the system more in morocco has its own specificities. is that, yes, we have are the system based on separation of power upon the government and usually and where the political parties can play very important role. but also there is a system in which within the framework of m b and when we need the commander of the faithful and which is working for more than 16 years since establishment of morocco,

the kingdom. and it is based on units of power with counselors. so the new one says about power in the country has to be negotiated. ok, elizabeth was going to be a coalition of some sorts after this election. it could be even weaker than previous coalitions. isn't that how to advance the morocco? democracy in economy with such probably weak coalitions trying to please everyone at the same time on the palace. well, unfortunately, the coalitions are trying to have agreements of the unlike minded as one analyst recently put it. and that's exactly how it is when you're trying to come up with some kind of consensus. you're going to naturally graduate or devolve to lowest common denominator, you know, but coming from a countries, the us that has basically a 2 party system. you know, i think the more is diluted, the less morocco will be able to implement the sorts of things that, that need to actually happen. and i would hope also that some of the individual

liberties that are re numerated in the 2011 constitution become a little bit more in the forefront of the people who are actually running women's rights. there's still issues with women's rights in the country. many, many issues are time it's against us, but let's talk about let's talk about how much with the national riley of independence is. the talk is that they may be the ones who get most of the seats in parliament, billionaire, business men, agriculture minister, as ease i can show it's lead. how different could he be? would he be as hobbled as the p. j. d. 's or russia, could he really make a difference? russia? yeah, i think the and i as a political party has been old as old. lucky then we have to remind the spectators about data genetic as

a party that came from the palace. it was born and then they were in the, in the parliament. so it's, as you know, she is trying to work on the legitimacy or when you, when the legitimacy of, in i, especially after the spring and after the patient, d is put in its proper legitimacy. on the ground, so in a political party now cannot just come like this. they have to come from the, the people and you have to work on a thought and legitimacy. so as the nurse has worked from 2009, and i think the scenario has been there, but just out of spring curtailed, the scenario of pushing either in a or palm, which is the part of the dentist and more than 2 into a power. now there is all the lights are on, as you know, there are leading of better professional campaign. of course they have the money present in the social media. there is a report that has that the are the ones who are heavily present in the media. but

this the last facebook speech of been kid on the ex president of the president. and that she was government, i think has a, that is a newish directly. so it has, it means for me, there is really a political dilemma inside what we call the gold, the square of part in morocco. with that, as you know, should we lead the common government or not rushing it could sorry, could, agnew should be the leader that could be more charismatic and capable of standing up to the executive the policy. i just got it more from the receiver of the policy . the new to receiver for new policies is something really new in morocco, which is actually the strength of movement. we don't have to forget that the social movement is what inhibited the change and the constitutional reform in morocco. it is less studied on how social movements and actions actually change the politics in the countries. this is the uprising we have in. it's also in the u. s, for example,

we, donald trump, was pushed to any of the united states and even a cold for kind of cool against the beyond the democratic system. so i said, what did the social movement, i think anybody who would be able to attract the softer movement or young people and young women and men in morocco is the one who will have more impact and see today is the royal institution days. and that is the windows. do you agree with you follow what he agree with what he says about social movements working here? i, i think there, i think social move there have been many social movements. and a lot of them have been quelled, especially for example, amazon social movements. but that's where that's where the power is. the power of the people is there. and i think what i've seen with the r n i

mama party is there all over social media. they're all over youtube and they're, they're doing an election. it's not unless it's a voting voter education campaign. they're reaching out specifically to women and women are 43 percent of the electorate here. and that's, that's a huge, a huge factor. and, and as a, as a lawyer and somebody who really is committed to democracy in the rule of law and trying to help people understand what it is. i really think we need to have more women, more youth, be able to begin to trust the system by seeing some results by seeing some respect for, for human rights and freedom of the press. but all of all of these things that are the foundations of a democracy. and, and yes, this is a constitutional monarchy. but a lot of those powers have been delegated to the government and they need to be able to be implemented with people given their rights and the more rights they feel

they have the more economic opportunities they have, the less you're going to see these social movements that are disruptive folks, i'm very sorry tom. unfortunately i got the better office, but thanks to all i guess to rushes to to, to new fall. i booed onto elizabeth myers, and thank you to watching. you can see the program again by getting our website al jazeera dot com and promoted a go to our facebook page. that's facebook dot com, forward slash a j inside story. you can also join the conversation on twitter. we are a j inside story. i'm bernard smith from the theme. busy and morocco, thanks for watching the news. news. news, news,

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