New family code to be revolutionary, official
Morocco, Politics, 3/11/2003

The text of the new Mudawana (family code) will be revolutionary after the Mudawana reform consultative commission closes its works, said head of the commission M'hamed Boucetta.

"The new code will be revolutionary and will be accepted by all parties, if the fundamental bases of Islam and progress of the society are taken into account, Boucetta said in an interview published Monday by the daily "Liberation."

Boucetta said he received hundreds of research papers, notes and viewpoints from associations, and there is no major divergence or antinomy that will cause conflicts. "The commission is examining provisions that can be revised or new ones that can be added," he said, underlining that its objective is to submit to king Mohammed VI "a project that respects the fundaments and principles of Islam, and to find in Islam(ic) approaches that enable society to move forward in pace with the world evolution. "In the history of religions, it is Islam that offered the most to women as regards their rights and preservation of their property," Boucetta went on.

M'hammed Boucetta, who was appointed in January, said it is a stroke of good fortune that the reform of the family code coincides with the creation of special family tribunals and an allowance fund that will give divorced women subsistence means. He said the reformed text will be issued next May, under the name "Family Mudawana (code)" instead of "personal status Mudawana." Of the outstanding role Moroccan women now play in several sectors, Boucetta said "women, and it is their most legitimate right, are holding now top positions, thanks to their competence, intelligence and work," and our laws, especially those regulating family matters, must accompany this progress.

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