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CHICAGO (Islam Online) - The Moroccan Party for Justice and Development (Al Adala Wa Tanmiya), a moderate party, has called for a more efficient government in order to successfully conduct "a clear economic and social program that is consistent with the Sharia Law," the news agency PANA reported Monday. In a memo sent to Prime Minister Abderrahmane Youssoufi, the party, which has seven legislators but no ministers in the current cabinet, asked for more reforms while affirming support to the government. The memo criticized government inefficiency and asked for more dynamic and accountable ministers. The party refused to join a left-wing coalition government assigned by the late King Al Hassan II in 1998. The coalition government is constituted of 42 ministers representing seven parties. Speculations concerning changes in the cabinet were raised when the current monarch, King Mohamed, asked the government to speed up reforms on the first anniversary of his accession to the throne, last July. Since coming to power, the king has taken several measures towards liberalizing political life in Morocco. Last May, one of the most important figures in the Islamic opposition was set free. Abdessalam Yassine, mentor of the largest Islamic opposition group, Justice and Good Deeds, had been under house arrest for the past ten years. Despite Yassine's detention, he managed with other Islamic movement leaders to stir popular protests against government attempts to change Islamic family laws. Upon his release, Yassine asked the king to use his inherited wealth received from his father to pay the national debt. Abraham Serfaty, a former communist leader, was also permitted to return to Morocco. Serfaty had been in exile in France for the past eight years. |
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