Friday, March 17, 2017

Morocco's king names former foreign minister as new PM

Morocco’s king has named Saad Eddine El Othmani from Islamist PJD Party as the country’s new prime minister and asked him to form a government, according to a royal statement published by the MAP state news agency on Friday.

Othmani was foreign minister between 2011-2013 and had since served as the head of the PJD’s parliamentary group.

King Mohammed VI announced on Wednesday he would replace Abdelilah Benkirane as prime minister with another member of the PJD in an effort to break a five-month post-election deadlock.

The king took the decision to oust Benkirane “in the absence of signs that



source http://www.omnipopmag.com/2017/03/17/morocco039s-king-names-former-foreign-minister-as-new-pm/

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