In Morocco the constitution allows the king to appoint a prime minister from the JDP, but this doesn’t mean that the party will be able to dominate the government.
“With only a third of all votes cast in its favor, the JDP will have to form a coalition government, but the question is who exactly they are going to bring into that government,” Bernard Lugan continued. He explained the Islamists’ electoral gains by the large number of rural dwellers moving to the cities.
“Faced with growing social inequality, many of those living in coastal cities and village migrants who previously voted for monarchist parties are now voting for the Islamists. The same thing is now happening in all Moslem countries,” Lugan noted.
When asked about the danger of Islamization, just like what is now happening in Turkey and other countries conservative Islamists are in power,
Bernard Lugan said that “even though they deny any links to the Muslim Brotherhood, these people have very much in common with their Muslim brethren and this is something we have to admit!”
Bernard Lugan also said that the Islamists’ strong showing in Friday’s elections did not pose any immediate threat to King Mohammed VI.
“There are two things Moroccans will never budge on: King Mohammed VI and the Western Sahara. For 30 years the problem of the Western Sahara has made it possible to bring opposition anti-monarchist parties back into the political fold. The Western Sahara is something Moroccans will never agree to give up,” Bernard Lugan emphasized.
The Western Sahara conflict is an ongoing conflict between Morocco and the Polisario Front – a rebel national liberation movement aiming to end the Moroccan presence in the Western Sahara region.
Today the conflict is dominated by unarmed civil campaigns of the Polisario Front and their self-proclaimed SADR state to gain fully recognized independence for Western Sahara.
