New Mobility in favor of the new configuration of Moroccan Political map

By African Bulletin on October 10, 2011

In a unique step in the Mena Area, and after six month the King Mohammed VI of Morocco has pronounced the creation a National Council for Human Rights (CNDH) to replace the Human Rights Advisory Council created in 1990.
The new elected president of the council Driss Yazami has supervised the first meeting of this institution gathering more than 40 key-persons in the area of human rights in Morocco.

The meeting has as purpose to make it public the final configuration of the council and to put a road map for the insight of its objective embodied in the consolidation of the independence of the institution in charge of monitoring human rights situation in the kingdom, by relying on pluralistic and rationalized composition.
In the founding constitution of the CNDH, The primary mission of the CNDH is to “monitor and assess the human rights situation, blow the whistle and enrich rights related-debate,”
The second attainment was the creation of a coalition of eight political parties,  PAM, RNI, Popular Movement, the Constitutional Union Party , the Labor party , the Socialist Party and the Green Left party.
This  political coalition  has been a subject of several  comments by observers who  were divided between those who has considered such alliance  just an  electoral  agreement for cooperation between  concerned political parties  often for purposes of contesting an election to mutually benefit by collectively clearing election thresholds or otherwise benefiting from characteristics of the voting system or for government formation after legislative election expected on the 25th of November 2011. And those see in such political shift a full of meaning setting aiming to put a common political agenda tailored to the new constitution’s political guidelines.
Several experts were criticizing Moroccan political parties for their deficit in vision and lack of method of governance since their political programs are devoid of real Portfolio. And from such point of view, they consider the new coalition a real catalyst in the Moroccan political life that will with no doubt contribute in the mobilization of all other actors to upgrade their mode of performance.
Despite some reservations expressed by some media supports, political leaders concerned by this alliance have expressed their will to protect common political values and to institute “political and economic” environment to meet with the new political pattern set by both new constitution and the regionalism road map.
And the third achievement is that Moroccan political parties are finalizing their deliberate to sign a code of ethics developed by the interior ministry as part of efforts to eliminate fraud and boost transparency, just weeks ahead of the November 25th elections.
The proposed code seeks to ensure parties nominate honest candidates and report any fraudulent activities to authorities. The parties must also promise to run clean electoral campaigns, refuse to buy votes, resort to violence or use religion for political purposes. The document also seeks to encourage greater representation for young people and women.
In point of fact, the New Moroccan Constitution was considered , by most of international and domestic observers, a very advanced stage in democracy building in Morocco in particular and in its whole African and Middle Eastern Environment in General.
Moroccan Elite has expressed also a very high degree of maturity since debates on reforms have been upgraded from populist demands (compared to other neighboring countries) to governance engineering deliberations.
The Constitution has been approved positively by Moroccan public opinion, and Moroccans are moving now to the most important stage which remains in the handicraft of the new regulations that should rule by the next political legislative term.
The protest movement of 20 February has played a positive role in the implementation of such reforms; however, this movement should be cautious that – as in any other country- , constructive struggle for democracy building requires to consider three items: The unity of the territory, the respect of Law, and the supervision of the execution of the new constitution.  But to do so, 20 February Movement has the duty to look after its independence, and move to more realistic dynamism. This could bring the movement to make alliance with some existing political entities and to work together for securing more advanced reforms by the new legislative election.
Democratic game is promoting so much in the near future in Morocco, and Young people must have their place, their word, in the next political engineering of the country.