King Mohammed VI of Morocco on Wednesday appointed Abbas El Fassi, leader of the Istiqlal (Independence) Party, Prime Minister.    Mr. El Fassi, 67, whose conservative party won the September 7 legislative elections with 52 seats, was appointed in replacement of Mr. Driss Jettou, a technocrat who led the outgoing government since the 2002 polls.

Morocco is a respectful country to the principle of human rights, at home in the southern provinces,  different delegations who  went to the Sahara have been able to  circulate freely, and noticed closely  the peaceful life in the region, underlined the Moroccan ambassador , and permanent representative at the UN in Geneva Mr Mohamed Loulichki

The chairman of the CORCAS Mr Khalihenna Ould Errachid held discussions, yesterday afternoon at the council’s headquarters in Rabat with the head of the middle –east and North Africa department at the Danish foreign affairs ministry. Mr Thomas Anker Christiensen.

The Moroccan conservative Istiqlal party has won the biggest number in the 325 seat house of representatives following Friday’s legislative elections. Although the percentage of participation was around 37 % at the national level ,it is worth mentioning that the  degree of participation  particularly in the southern region of Morocco has known an outright  increase,

The region of an autonomous Sahara and integral part of Morocco “remains the only rational solution” to the question of Sahara, and also “the most certain” from the international geopolitical point of view, considers the foreign policy research institute