Political debate over elections reappears in Morocco

01 Jul 2020
Marruecos
Fuente: 
Atalayar

The return to normality and the end of confinement in Morocco have created the perfect scenario for the resurgence of political debate. Thus, the Moroccan Minister of the Interior, Abdelouafi Laftit, assured the political parties that the elections of 2021 "will not be postponed", despite the economic repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Moroccan daily L'Opinion. 

Morocco's 2021 General Elections to Take Place in September

09 Nov 2020
Marruecos
Fuente: 
Morocco World News

Morocco’s 2021 general elections are set to take place in September, Le360 reported today, citing “concordant sources.”

According to the same source, next  year’s elections will include three votes — municipal, regional, and legislative elections — on the same day.

Municipal and regional elections decide which political parties will lead local and regional councils. Meanwhile, the legislative election determines the number of seats each party earns at Morocco’s House of Representatives.

Mesa redonda sobre "La Protesta" argelina actual en la UCM

El día 14 de mayo tuvo lugar en la Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología de la UCM, una mesa redonda sobre "La Protesta" argelina actual, y contó con la participación de los siguientes ponentes:

1. JUAN DAVID SEMPERE (Departamento de Geografía, de la Universidad de Alicante)

2. ALEJANDRA ORTEGA (Delegada para los países árabes de CCOO)

3. LAURENCE THIEUX (Departamento de Relaciones Internacionales e Historia Global, UCM)

4. BEATRIZ ALONSO (Investigadora de medios y doctora por la Universidad Carlos III)

Background to the 2012 National Assembly Elections

Análisis pre-electoral
Kuwait

The Kuwaiti National Assembly (NA) is composed of 50 members, elected by universal suffrage, and since 2006 with women participating as both voters and candidates. The NA has been suspended constitutionally (and unconstitutionally) on several occasions since 1963, and did not function on a regular basis until 1992, after the occupation of the country by Iraq and the following restoration of Kuwaiti sovereignty. Disagreement between MPs and Ministers has been constant in Kuwaiti politics and has caused 4 suspensions of the NA and consecutive legislative elections in the last 6 years.

Consultative Council Elections, 15 October 2011

Ficha electoral
Omán

Oman’s Consultative Council elections were the third with universal suffrage to be held in the country, after those of 2003 and 2007. They took place following popular protests earlier in the year - the widest the Sultanate had experienced since the end of the Dhofar war in the 1970s. In a country where political associations are banned and civil society is notably less organised than in Bahrain or Kuwait, the ‘Omani Spring' was marked by the death of two protesters in the Northern town of Sohar in February and April.

Constituent Assembly Elections, 23 October 2011

Ficha electoral
Túnez

The surprising events that began on 17 December with the immolation of a young Mohammed Bouazizi in the city of Sidi Bouzid would unleash a national catharsis of unprecedented consequences with a far-reaching impact. The incident, the result of an individual humiliation, transformed itself into a collective realisation among broad swathes of society that their situation was indignant and intolerable. In Sfax, then in Tunis and little by little across the whole country, these groups rose up, rousing a protest against the regime that was both decentralised and unstoppable.

Constitutional Referendum, 1 July 2011

Ficha electoral
Marruecos

2011 will no doubt go down in history as the year when the Arab peoples rose up against the dictatorships and autocracies that had, post-independence, become the exclusive model of governance in this part of the world. The demands for freedom and democracy, denominated the Arab Spring, had a domino effect and soon called into question the myth of Moroccan exceptionality.

Parliamentary by-elections, 24 September-1 October 2011

Ficha electoral
Bahréin

Bahrain’s 2011 parliamentary by-elections were held following the resignation in February of 18 MPs from the main opposition association, al-Wefaq, who had been elected in October 2010 (see report on Bahrain’s 2010 parliamentary elections). This decision was taken in reaction to the government’s violence against protesters who gathered at the Pearl Roundabout in Manama to demand a new Constitution with an elected Prime Minister and full legislative powers for the Council of Representatives.

An autumn of elections in the Gulf

Análisis eventual
Bahréin
Kuwait
Omán
Catar
Arabia Saudí
Emiratos Árabes Unidos

In the heat of the 'Arab Spring' five electoral processes have been held in states that form part of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). However, neither the international news media nor electoral analysts have paid much attention to these elections. At OPEMAM, we wish to underline the importance of these elections - in spite of their idiosyncrasies and shortcomings - amidst the wave of changes affecting the entire region.

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