Elections in Morocco 2

Definitely, no precedent parliamentary elections in Morocco have been dugg the way it’s been done nowadays on the internet. I have spent today’s time infront of my PC to read what’s there in English and I must say that there’s a great deal out there.

I stumbled upon personal accounts (mainly blogs) of the elactions as well as professional provoking articles. My best read was a three part article by Ibn Kafka than can be found here, here and here. This latter gives a brief history of Morocco and explains how things has worked in this country.

Some sites I found fishy like this one that has the name elections-maroc and claims to be the official election site when it is about the PPS! On the other hand, trying to check si Fouad’s website 10 minutes after midnight I found a meesage telling me that election compaign ends at midnight:

Notre campagne s’étant achevée le 6 septembre à minuit,
Nous vous donnons rendez-vous très bientôt sur la même adresse…

Almost all parties have had a bunch of pages online with their electoral programs. The REAL official 2007 elections site is a nice onestop place to learn everything about elections, constitutional procedures and statistics about candidates. It there that I learnt that tecahers may be the rulers of tomorrow’s Morocco!

Still, I haven’t decided whether to vote or not! In case I go there which party will I go for? will it be worth the black ink spot on my thumb for 24 hours?

To be continued…