Fez - Hamid Chabat, the secretary general of the Independence Party, has declared his candidacy to run for President of the Fez-Meknes region in Morocco.
While his party did not win the majority of seats in the region in the recent elections, and having been unseated from his Mayoral office in Fez, Chabat submitted his candidacy late on Wednesday. .
The Party of Independence was heavily defeated in the Fez-Meknes region in the Regional and Municipal Elections on September 4, winning only fifteen seats. It was outrun by the Party of Justice and development with twenty two seats. The Party of Authenticity and Modernity and the Party of the Popular Movement dominated the third position with nine seats each, followed by the Party National Rally of Independents (six seats), the Socialist Union of Popular Forces Party (five seats), the Constitutional Union Party (two seats), and the Progress and Socialism Party (one seat).
Hadi Kinani, a teacher of English and a member of the PJD told Morocco World News that “the PJD’s most important achievement in Fez is to block Chabat from the Regional Presidency because he is corrupt.” He added that to fulfill this wish, the PJD will have to form a coalition with other parties to give a candidate at least 35 votes from the available regional seats which are limited to 69 seats.
Mohand Laenser, the President of the Popular Movement Party, is also a candidate to lead the Region. The most likely way he will succeed and oust Chabat is for the PJD to vote for him along with the six members of the National Rally of Independents, and nine councils from the Popular Movement Party.
People in Fez and in other Moroccan cities are anxiously awaiting the regional Presidency elections in the coming days to know who will become the official President of the region.
Voting will be public in order to guarantee transparency and to know who voted for whom.
Edited by Elisabeth Myers
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