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Reform or Radical Change: a False Debate
The following post is a personal account of a pleasant late evening meeting organized by Cap Démocratie Maroc (Capdema) society, a debate in the lines of the theme “Reformism or Breakthrough change?“...
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Moroccan Elections for the Clueless Vol.1
From today till November 25th, I will try to post daily facts about elections in Morocco. This is my own contribution to the ongoing debate, and since my party isn’t going to the country, I suppose I...
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Moroccan Elections for the Clueless Vol.2
Why is it no political party can “rule” by itself? In other terms, how come we always need a coalition (sometimes very heterogeneous) to form a government, even with the Alternance Consensuelle? To...
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Moroccan Elections for the Clueless Vol.3
The Boycott Option: Has the boycott been of some significant over general elections since 1963? Beforehand, I have been admonished for my use of official data on the last 50 years or so. And I agree:...
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The Open Society Project – 2011 Manifesto
PJD Heavyweight Lahcen Daoudi has unveiled recently part of his party’s manifesto for the next November 25th elections on TIZI (Tarik Ibnou Zayad Initiative) (special thanks for Ghali who notified me...
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Moroccan Elections for the Clueless Vol.7
A little-known party (for the younger generation, anyway) plays an important role in the A8 Alliance, an establishment party with a very good chance to go back into office, although with junior...
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The Middle Class Rip Off
Much has been made of the Feb20 demonstrations, mainly as a sign of middle class unrest and discontent with perceived unfair distribution of wealth and political power. While it is understood only too...
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The Future of Radicalism in Morocco: Tribunite or Policy-driven Alternative?
This is a bit excruciating for me. As the idea started forming in my mind, I thought it would sound and look like I have abdicated what I hold to be my core, inner beliefs. To be more precise, this is...
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PC – Intellectual Bullying
It really is nothing. I am just reporting on how a twitter banter turned ugly when the PC brigade barged in, charging full speed ahead at the sight of what was perceived as “disrespectful” joke -to...
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What’s Left in Morocco? The Case For Progressive, Ambitious and Assertive...
Call me pretentious, effete intellectual, but I deplore the absence of a comparable figure with a narrative close to that of Ed Ball‘s in the Moroccan political discourse: the bare-knuckled, assertive,...
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Wandering Thoughts, Vol.16
Two movies I have been watching and re-watching these last couple of days: ‘Funeral In Berlin‘ and the brand new ‘Tinker, Taylor, Soldier Spy’ movie adaptation of John LeCarré most famous novel. in...
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A Dangerous Game: 5% Deficit and Mounting Public Debt
I most certainly will devote a post underlying the inherent dangers of a large public debt on the Moroccan economy, especially when one considers it lives the closing moments of its expansionary cycle....
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Is anyone thinking about 2016?
It seems not. A year seems to be a long time in Moroccan politics, and all across the political spectrum, politicians and activists do not seem to take a step back an look at the big picture, even the...
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Five Score Years Later…
“La Marche de l’Histoire” is perhaps the best Radio France Inter broadcasts – not nearly as great as its predecessor 2000 d’Histoire- but still; On March 9th Jean Lebrun invited Professor E. Berenson...
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Fiat justitia Ruat Caelum
Doom-sayers have one additional thing to crow about: the abysmal – I might say plainly insulting, certainly brazenly shameless – performance of our Head of Government in his Al Jazeera interview. I say...
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Mai 1963: Un Demi Siècle d’Élections Parlementaires
J’avoue, je confesse une obsession (saine) pour les statistiques des élections parlementaires du Maroc. Probablement parce que celles-ci sont si difficiles à compiler, mais peut-être aussi parce...
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Offre et Demande, L’effet de l’Indexation
“La hausse des carburants pourrait faire baisser le PIB selon le HCP” titre Yabiladi suite à la décision du gouvernement de lever partiellement la subvention aux hydrocarbures. Il est cependant plus...
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