Leaders of the Moroccan Justice and Development Party expect to lose the elections

The Islamists have lost the confidence of the street and blame the electoral divider.

No sleep now.. the elections are around the corner

Rabat - Prominent leaders of the Justice and Development Party have begun paving the way for a decline in the party's fortunes in the elections scheduled for tomorrow, blaming the electoral divider instead of acknowledging the decline in their popularity and their inability during the government's administration in two successive sessions to fulfill the promises they made in their electoral campaigns.

Follow-up Moroccan circles said that the Justice and Development Party, which failed to run the country during ten years of rule, is expected to lose an important part of its seats in various locations, including its traditional influence, but it is unlikely to leave the circle of the winning parties, which is what He nominates him to remain part of the next government coalition, even if he is in the role of a secondary partner instead of his current position as a major partner.

These circles expected that the elections would witness a punitive vote against the party because of the many mistakes it made, and its failure to formulate ideas and programs that respond to the demands of the people who will bear the failures of the government as the first party, although its leaders admit that their expected retreat is part of a conspiracy against their party represented in the electoral denominator, considering that it A “coup against democracy,” targeting the party and dwarfing its chances of winning the electoral benefits.

Suleiman Al-Amrani admits that expectations show a clear decline for the party

Suleiman Al-Omrani, Deputy Secretary-General of the Justice and Development Party, admitted that expectations show a clear decline for the party, but instead of looking for the reasons for this decline, he accused the parties of supporting the new electoral divider to weaken the party's fortunes and seize its seats.

It is the first time in the history of the Kingdom that members of the House of Representatives (395) and members of provincial and district councils (more than 31 thousand) will be elected in one day, which is expected to positively affect the participation rate.

It is also the first time that the results will be calculated based on the total of those registered in the electoral lists, whether they participated in the polls or not, while this calculation has been based only on the number of voters since the first elections held in Morocco in 1960.

It is expected that this new pattern will lead to a decrease in the number of seats for major parties in the House of Representatives, but the Justice and Development Party was the only one who opposed it as an “unprecedented democratic decline” and “a targeting of its electoral fortunes.”

It is expected that the party will lose, according to various estimates, between 30 and 40 seats, even if it gets the number of votes it won five years ago and gave it 125 seats, which would complicate its task in forming a government if it leads in the results.

Saad El-Din El Othmani, the party’s Secretary-General, had paved the way for the party’s fortunes to decline by saying, “This time, there will be many influences on the elections, such as the electoral divider and the abolition of the threshold for groups, which would distort the representation of political parties, whether in parliament or groups, in addition to another influence represented in In the unprecedented disbursement of money to buy candidates and votes.”

Hicham Fakih, a researcher in public law and political science at the University of Rabat, believes that the Justice and Development Party's chances of winning the elections have become slim in light of the decline in its popularity during the current government term. Less than 3 percent of all seats are contested nationwide.

Hisham Fakih: The punitive vote would undermine the fortunes of the Islamists

Hisham Fakih added in a statement to "Al-Arab" that "the rival parties, such as the National Rally of Independents, the Independence Party and the Authenticity and Modernity Party, have undertaken to renew their structures and discourse, which made the Justice and Development Party face strong competition, and the intense punitive vote would undermine the party's fortunes in Winning first place, through criticism of his government performance during the past ten years.

Observers of the party affairs stressed that the Justice and Development is aware of its poor organizational conditions, including the departure of a number of prominent members and their candidacies under the banner of other parties, including the National Rally of Independents, pointing out that the party’s leaders know the decline in its popularity and its bad relationship with the Moroccan citizen, who has been affected by the party’s decisions for ten years. That is why they spread fear that the results of the upcoming elections will not be published.

These observers pointed to Morocco's success in dealing with the Islamists by putting them in the face of the demands of the street so that they know that democracy is not a goal in itself, and that it is an entry point to test the ability of parties and personalities to implement their ideas and programs, a test that revealed the limited performance of Islamists in governance.

On the other hand, and in order to raise the shares of his party, Abdelilah Benkirane, the former Secretary-General of the Justice and Development Party, intervened in the last few meters of the end of the electoral race, criticizing his rival, Aziz Akhannouch, head of the National Rally of Independents, saying that he lacks the charisma that qualifies him to lead the next government, and that he is merely a "" A businessman surrounded by suspicion.”

Mohamed Oujar, a member of the Political Bureau of the National Rally of Independents, responded to him in a party meeting in Bouarfa in eastern Morocco, saying that “the great sympathy enjoyed by the party and its leader, Aziz Akhannouch, constitutes a great psychological pressure on some political parties (Justice and Development) that do not understand this success, nor Understand that it is a success that came with reasonableness, listening, humility and honesty with people.”