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Morocco will find it hard to cut subsidies as long as oil prices stay high, General Affairs and Governance Minister Najib Boulif said, even as the country comes under pressure from the International Monetary Fund.
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Morocco’s prime minister announced plans to reform the state pension system that include raising the retirement age to avoid its “collapse.”
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When tens of thousands of Moroccans took to the streets nationwide on March 20, their chanted demands echoed those of citizens across the Arab world: freer elections, greater civil liberties and less corruption.
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Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy met yesterday with his counterpart in Morocco, Abdelilah Benkirane, and said he supported the neighboring country’s recent moves toward greater democracy.
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Moroccans are voting today in an election that the king promised would be followed by a shift of some royal powers to an elected premier for the first time.
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Morocco’s main Islamist group, the Justice and Development Party, won the biggest bloc of seats, 26 percent, in parliamentary elections that will test King Mohammed VI’s commitment to shift some powers to an elected premier.
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Moroccans are awaiting the results of a vote that will test King Mohammed VI’s commitment to shift some royal powers to an elected premier.
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Middle East voters awaited changes of government as Morocco’s main Islamist opposition party won parliamentary elections, Egyptians prepared for their own polls tomorrow and Yemen set a date for a presidential vote.
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Morocco’s King Mohammed VI summoned the head of the country’s main Islamist party for talks over forming a new government following its victory in the Nov. 25 elections, the daily paper Akhbar Al Yaoum reported today.
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Morocco’s King Mohammed VI, responding to calls for more democracy, pledged to create a committee to review the North African nation’s constitution by June and hold a referendum on the changes shortly after.
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