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Article: The king's gift to his country.(centre-left coalition government takes over Morocco, king retains control of most policy matters)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- March 21, 1998
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DEMOCRATIC oppositions in the Arab world, if they exist at all, remain in opposition. But in Morocco, on March 16th, a centre-left coalition took over the government after 40 years of conservative rule. From west to east, Arab newspapers hailed a quantum leap forward in Middle Eastern democracy. From closer quarters, the political revolution is plainly stage-managed. Even so, there remains a chance that the new government will rise to the role that has been billed for it.
King Hassan II, who has ruled Morocco through governments of loyal functionaries for the past 37 years, has gone to great lengths to usher in the new political "alternation". In the ...