Meet Aziz Akhannouch, The Billionaire Tapped To Become Morocco’s Next Prime Minister:
will become Morocco’s next prime minister, it has been confirmed, after the north African country went to the polls last week.that Morocco’s King, Mohammed VI, had received Akhannouch—president of the liberal, albeit royalist, National Rally of Independents party—to the Royal Palace in Fez, where he was asked to form a new government.
Having narrowly won the election, winning 102 parliamentary seats of the 395 available, Akhannouch has pushed the conservative PJD Islamists party out of power, after the party—which led various coalitions for a decade—lost favor with voters amid Morocco’s lagging economic performance during the pandemic.
Supporters of Aziz Akhannouch attend a campaign meeting in the Oudaya Kasbah in the capital of Rabat, 2021The main party of the incumbent coalition government took just 13 seats, according to Morocco’s interior ministry last week. The results reflected concerns from the World Bank that the country’s economy had contracted by 7% during 2020, while in its latest report in 2020 the International Monetary Fund criticized Morocco’s “below 3%” growth and high unemployment among youth and women.
Despite Akhannouch heralding his election as"a victory for democracy" in a TV address, executive power in Morocco remains largely in the hands of King Mohammed VI, who celebrated 22 years on the throne in July.
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