Arabic News Weekly Edition for Morocco, 11/17/1997
Weekly Edition, Morocco - Week of November 17, 1997
- Moroccan monarch keeps extensive rights to control political activities
Experts described this election as the peak of a calculated process to move toward democracy which had been prepared by the Moroccan monarch, King Hassan II, in order to give an opportunity to the opposition to participate in the government. Morocco, Politics, 11/17/1997 - Moroccan opposition accuses government of negligence in issue of buying votes
The government offered $12 million to support all the political parties according to specified conditions, including the number of nominees. It also specified $250,000 as a ceiling of the money used by each nominee to finance his election campaign. Morocco, Politics, 11/17/1997 - Setting up an Egyptian-Moroccan free trade zone Egypt-Morocco, Economics, 11/17/1997