Boubekeur: Moroccan Political Parties Destabilized by Elections

Amel Boubekeur writes that although the Moroccan elections witnessed higher youth and women’s participation, they did not cement Morocco’s fluid party system (that is penetrated by royal interests), but weakened it. This fragmentation is caused by a lack of interest in the functioning of parties, which elicit less interest than royally administered development initiatives. Boubekeur claims that electoral reform did not ameliorate the blemishes in the system; in fact the parties were destabilized by certain reforms.

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