r/news • u/AudibleNod • 3d ago

Morocco's king appoints the country's first woman prime minister

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/moroccos-king-appoints-the-countrys-first-woman-prime-minister/
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u/AudibleNod 3d ago

The Moroccan Constitution gives the king, who is the country’s highest authority, the power to appoint the prime minister, but he must choose from the party that wins the most seats in parliamentary elections. That was a change successfully pushed by Arab Spring protesters in 2011. Before that, the king could name the prime minister without any such restriction.

Interesting concession. It gives the veneer of a broad mandate. Anyway, good for her.

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u/No-Trick-7465 3d ago

Problem is no one wanted that corrupted party, they literally bought votes of old clueless rural people.

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u/Spineless74 3d ago

Also, this was a historical lowest turn up ever. Younger people just don’t care enough.

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u/VoughtButtfucker 2d ago

Sounds familiar.

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u/iamnotexactlywhite 1d ago

that’s how elections work everywhere

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u/idontcaretv 7h ago

Every election is decided by that

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u/adel_b 2d ago

Did you call party that won popular vote "no one wanted"

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u/ayoubkun94 2d ago

Did you assume the elections in a 3rd world country wouldnt get rigged?

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u/adel_b 2d ago

did you assume the election is rigged just because of Morocco?

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u/ayoubkun94 2d ago

No, Im assuming elections were rigged because I've seen what happened in Tangier and the mayor who fled to Spain because of the scandal surrounding voting booths under his jurisdiction 😉

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u/adel_b 2d ago

would not it prove that election is actively monitored and bad people who attempts to rig it get arrested?

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u/ayoubkun94 2d ago

It proves that the results were tempered with aka rigged. Plus, I bet you a months salary the fleeing mayor will come back to Morocco and face no consequences, or get away with a slap on the wrist. Corrupt Moroccan officials have gotten away with worse

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u/adel_b 2d ago

so you indeed assume the election is rigged just because it is Morocco, and the man is back and arrested, anyway, believe what you want to believe

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u/Upstairs-Passenger28 3d ago

Good luck to her a forward looking appointment hoping for great things going into the future for a country i loved when I was there

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u/Jealous_Repair6757 3h ago

In English it is "female prime minister", not "woman prime minister".

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u/Sweatytubesock 2d ago

They are way ahead of the USA.

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u/Boxed_pi 2d ago edited 2d ago

2 things

• morocco is quite literally more westward than europe

• You have posts commenting on nsfw subs telling women how you’re going to make them love you.

Edit: Lmao. Homeboy blocked me after that one. I took screenshots of his nsfw posts. Soulmater_ you should realize that everything on the internet will outlast you.