Election „Surprise“ in Moroccco

In spite of all the expectations based on public opinion pollls and the colourful campaign the islamists led , the (moderate) islamist Party of Justice and Development (PJD) placed itself in the legislative elections ( with a low 37% participation) as the second after the traditional nationalist Istiqlal Party which proves that whatever the election results may be, the real power represents the royal Palace, not the Government, the more less the Parliament …
The Islamists immediately put the blame for their failure on the „booming corruption“ , but actually, they are victims of the electorial system and the reduction of the rural constituencies in which they are well implanted …
King Mohammed VI will very likely ask the Istiqlal Party (its former ally the Socialist Mouvement of the Popular Forces (USFP) was the real loser in the elections) to form the new government … The PJD will not,obviously,refuse to participate in the government, however, the question is, whether the Istiqlal Party will make the offer …
The Monarchy is without doubt very popular in Morocco and nobody wishes its fall in spite of the fact that the King , apparantly wishing to modernize his kingdom, has not yet allowed the political class to emancipate itself from his tutelage for fear of the emergence of the counterpower, which is however, a fundamental feature of democracy …

And the west will continue to allow the King of Morocco to control the election process and government generally, because it stops the Islamists getting power.

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... I am surprised at your insolence in writing to me at all. You know, as I know, that I bought this constituency... may God's curse light upon you and may it make your women as open and as free to the excise officers as your wives and daughters have always been to me while I have represented your scoundrel corporation.
I have the honour to be... your obliged humble servant, Anthony Henley
- MPs reply to constituent, mid 1700s

Yes,you are right... outside the theory one must admit that theorists are mostly of not much use if of any while the stagers make the history ...
Also Saddam Hussein and Hafiz Assad were holding back the Muslim fundamentalists ...