Friday, March 11, 2011

Moroccan King appoints commission to reform the Constitution

King Mohammed VI presided today at the Royal Palace in the ceremony of establishment of the advisory committee will be responsible for the Moroccan constitutional reform, consisting of nineteen people and whose president is Abdelatif Menuni. Most committee members have belonged to human rights official bodies such as Driss El Yazami, president of the National Council for Human Rights (CCHR) and former member of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission (which investigated the so-called "years lead "in the monarchies of Mohamed V and Hassan II).

In addition, part of the commission Herzeni Ahmed, former president of CCHR, and Albert Sason, who was a member of the council as well as former Moroccan ambassador to Madrid, Omar Azziman, who chaired the Advisory Committee on Regionalization ( CCR) in Morocco. Leading academic figures have also been elected to the team of experts, political scientists and Mohamed Abdellah Saaf and sociologist Mohamed Tozy Berduzi.

The monarch gave a speech Alawi this occasion, which asked the commission to "listen and talk to all the instances and skilled players, without exception, and to carry out a creative effort to propose a organizational paradigm necessary. " According to the agency MAP, in his speech the monarch underlined the importance it attaches to "the participation of political parties in the optimal configuration and implementation of constitutional governance." "The Moroccan people still have the first and last word on this draft constitution, which directly expressed through a free and fair referendum," said Mohamed VI.

He also assured that "our common goal is simply to lead Morocco to a new constitutional and democratic consolidation within which the rule of law and institutions, citizenship, dignity, unity and sovereignty." Expected changes in the fundamental law include, among others, the upgrading of the prime minister as "president of an executive of cash," expand the powers of Parliament or make justice an independent power.

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