La Vie Economique: New family code to be ready in 3-4 months
Morocco, Politics, 3/8/2003

Head of the commission for Mudawana (family code) reform, M'hamed Boucetta, said "the new text will be ready in three or four months."

In an interview published Friday by the weekly "La Vie Economique," Boucetta, who was appointed in January head of the commission looking into reforms of the Mudawana, said "when the family code will be promulgated, there will be a large communication and awareness campaign."

On alleged disagreements between the reform commission members, he said "there are absolutely no deep divergences or positions that are impossible to conciliate. It is about finding the appropriate wordings that fit everyone."

Boucetta gave the example of the first article of the code, which will be modified from the old wording, "the family is placed under the headship of the husband," to the new wording of it will be "placed under joint headship of the two spouses."

The head of the Mudawana reform commission deems that the most important is "to seek in the values and principles of Islam elements that can help move forward in the legal status of women and the protection of the family, society's nucleus."

On the abolition of polygamy which has been long a claim of women organizations and political parties, Boucetta said "I can not suggest the abolition of polygamy. It would never be accepted anyway (É) What we need today is to make it impossible using the Quran's provisions themselves."

He said there will be many new things in divorce and repudiation regulations. "The husband will not be able to decide alone in this question, and the procedure of reconciliation will be improved and systematized," he said, adding that "the right to divorce would thus be equal for either spouse, and placed in the hands of family tribunals."

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