Rabat, May 23, 2013 (MAP)
Inter-government divisions entailed by the decision by a coalition member, Istiqlal party, to withdraw from the government and the announced fusion between three leftist parties are the major themes commented this Thursday by Moroccan editorials.
The editorialist notes that the Istiqlal party has its own structures that can evaluate objectively the performance of the ministers belonging to the party and give them a chance to defend their action, deploring that the harsh criticism of the party leader might be considered as a means of settling his own accounts with the party’s figures who had supported his rival at the party’s elections of a secretary general.
For Al Ahdath Al Maghribia, the crisis in Morocco knows no limits, especially at the economic level. The editorialist notes that while leaders of western countries are taking a series of measures to limit damages, in Morocco, the government crisis continues to affect the management of public affairs.
The editorialist added that the government crisis threatens to hamper the quest of solutions to the economic problems and jeopardize the pursuit of the people interests.
On the same topic, Le Soir argues that the electoral system is to be blamed for the current crisis as this system makes it impossible for a single party to win absolute majority and be thus able to manage affairs coherently with its own program and to be accountable for it, explaining that the present system, designed to protect the pluralism and diversity of the Moroccan society, entails the shattering of voices among tiny parties that do not have any fundamental ideology.
It stresses, in this regard, that the fusion of three leftist political parties, announced on Wednesday, illustrates the irrelevance of shattered programs.
It is time to start examining the electoral system issue, and hence electoral, warding and set a timetable for a deep reforms, supervised by neutral circles and think-tanks instead of waiting until elections are near.
For L’Economiste, the fusion shows that the left parties are more worried than they actually show, calling on the Socialist union for popular forces (USFP/opposition) to be more aggressive, as only two leaders are emerging now in the political landscape.
The editorialist also warns small parties of dangers of extinction unless they merge with other parties.