In a stunning display of political desperation, Morocco’s parliamentary delegation was caught engaging in extraordinary maneuvering during elections for the Bureau of the North Africa Regional Group of the Pan-African Parliament \u2014 held on the sidelines of Algerian MP Fateh Boutebbik’s landslide victory to the presidency of the African Parliament.<\/p>\n
dzwatch has learned exclusively that Morocco’s delegation, denied a candidacy in the regional bureau elections \u2014 as Algeria’s delegation had its sights set on leading the African Union’s continental body \u2014 resorted to last-minute pressure tactics in a frantic bid to seize the bureau rapporteur seat, competing fiercely against a representative from the Sahrawi delegation.<\/p>\n
Despite their policy of systematically ignoring and sidelining Sahrawi representatives, the Moroccan delegation aggressively lobbied beyond all accepted norms, desperately hoping to influence nominations and the direction of proceedings. Their bid ultimately failed, exposing once again the Moroccan regime’s bad-faith approach to African parliamentary institutions and its ongoing hostility toward the legitimate rights of the Sahrawi people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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