Morocco: PJD called to order
Moroccan media reports that the PJD has come under pressure to put solving the country's problems first and act more like a party in government.
Source : https://www.marocafrik.com/english/Morocco-PJD-cal...
Opposition majority, associations, intellectuals, ... in six months, the PJD has managed to get everyone's back up. Annoyed, Abdelilah Benkirane struck back strongly with his party, demanding restraint, La Vie Eco reports.
Mr Benkirane who is Secretary General of the PJD as well as being Prime Minister called the party to stop the internicine bickering:"We need you to stop attacks from within. I can not evade both the bullets that I get from the outside and ones that I get from within the party. " Mr Benkirane spoke as Secretary General of the PJD at their national council meeting. La Vie Eco speculates this had to do with the accusation against the leader of the RNI party Salaheddine Mezouar that he took bonsuses as a bribe when he was Finance Minister in the previous government. The PJD has had to make a public apology to Mr Mezouar over the unfounded allegations.
This was not the only incident of this kind,there have been attacks against Mohand Laenser, Minister of the Minister of the Interior and Secretary of the MP party a member of the coalition by members of his party. Relations between the PJD and the USFP socialist party are also said to be acrimonious.
La Vie Eco also refers back to earlier incidents such as the statement by Minister of Justice Mustapha Ramid that foreign tourists were coming to Marrakech to sin,and other statements by ministers as well as the rise in the price of fuel.
This was a coalition government decision but ,as the paper points out to most Moroccans the government is the PJD and in very little time the PJD has succeeded in alienating almost everyone, La Vie Eco says. It suggests that teh PJD lacks political vision and even some of its ministers have difficulty in adjusting their behaviour from when they were in opposition to being in government as they now are.The role of the PJD as a parliamentary party is largtely undefined , the paper says. It says that it may be par of the PJD's strategy to attack the opposition as a distraction because it knows it cannot deliver on many of the promises it made to the electorate.
Is this the end of the honeymoon between the palace and the PJD? The daily Al Akhbar Yaoum, in its edition of Monday, says yes.The newspaper claims that, during the Cabinet meeting on June 17 held in Oujda, King Mohammed VI openly criticized the statements of some PJD ministers anxious to promote controversy rather than to work towards finding solutions to the problems that Morocco faces today.
According to Akhbar Al Yaoum, the King reportedly asked Abdelilah Benkirane and his ministers to devote more time to facing the challenge s of the present and the future instead of concentrating on old issues from the Morocco of fifty years ago and sparking controversy and arguments that are aimed at all Moroccans. His Majesty reportedly invited the ministers who had evidence of corruption or malfeasance to go to court. Immediately after this royal reprimand, the PJD issued a formal apology to Salaheddine Mezouar, the chairman of the RNI party.
Other disputes, notably the case of the MP Abdelaziz Aftati could undermine the functioning of the coalition, says Akhbar Al Yaoum.
Mr Benkirane who is Secretary General of the PJD as well as being Prime Minister called the party to stop the internicine bickering:"We need you to stop attacks from within. I can not evade both the bullets that I get from the outside and ones that I get from within the party. " Mr Benkirane spoke as Secretary General of the PJD at their national council meeting. La Vie Eco speculates this had to do with the accusation against the leader of the RNI party Salaheddine Mezouar that he took bonsuses as a bribe when he was Finance Minister in the previous government. The PJD has had to make a public apology to Mr Mezouar over the unfounded allegations.
This was not the only incident of this kind,there have been attacks against Mohand Laenser, Minister of the Minister of the Interior and Secretary of the MP party a member of the coalition by members of his party. Relations between the PJD and the USFP socialist party are also said to be acrimonious.
La Vie Eco also refers back to earlier incidents such as the statement by Minister of Justice Mustapha Ramid that foreign tourists were coming to Marrakech to sin,and other statements by ministers as well as the rise in the price of fuel.
This was a coalition government decision but ,as the paper points out to most Moroccans the government is the PJD and in very little time the PJD has succeeded in alienating almost everyone, La Vie Eco says. It suggests that teh PJD lacks political vision and even some of its ministers have difficulty in adjusting their behaviour from when they were in opposition to being in government as they now are.The role of the PJD as a parliamentary party is largtely undefined , the paper says. It says that it may be par of the PJD's strategy to attack the opposition as a distraction because it knows it cannot deliver on many of the promises it made to the electorate.
Is this the end of the honeymoon between the palace and the PJD? The daily Al Akhbar Yaoum, in its edition of Monday, says yes.The newspaper claims that, during the Cabinet meeting on June 17 held in Oujda, King Mohammed VI openly criticized the statements of some PJD ministers anxious to promote controversy rather than to work towards finding solutions to the problems that Morocco faces today.
According to Akhbar Al Yaoum, the King reportedly asked Abdelilah Benkirane and his ministers to devote more time to facing the challenge s of the present and the future instead of concentrating on old issues from the Morocco of fifty years ago and sparking controversy and arguments that are aimed at all Moroccans. His Majesty reportedly invited the ministers who had evidence of corruption or malfeasance to go to court. Immediately after this royal reprimand, the PJD issued a formal apology to Salaheddine Mezouar, the chairman of the RNI party.
Other disputes, notably the case of the MP Abdelaziz Aftati could undermine the functioning of the coalition, says Akhbar Al Yaoum.
Source : https://www.marocafrik.com/english/Morocco-PJD-cal...