The National Council of the Justice and Development Party (PJD) criticized what it described as “pressure” exerted on its activists and its candidates by certain political rivals during the last electoral elections, expressing its regret at “the involvement of certain people. men of authority ”in these practices.
The PJD considered, in the final communiqué of its National Council held, Saturday in Rabat, that “these pressures are incompatible with the principles of neutrality, and the foundations and the rules of an honest competition which should characterize each free electoral test and just “.
The National Council of the Lamp Party denounced “the violations and dysfunctions observed during the elections, whether they are the regressive amendments that affected the electoral laws or the deletions and duplicate registrations on the occasion of the exceptional revision. electoral lists or even the massive use of money to buy votes.
The PJD criticized in its press release, of which Hespres FR has a copy, “the manipulation of the reports, the non-delivery of some of them, the delivery of others outside the polling stations, the direct orientation of voters on election day, or the undue delay in announcing the winning candidates as well as the non-publication so far of the detailed results and the detailed distribution of the votes.
The PJD condemned “the forms of electoral corruption which led to the announcement of results which do not reflect the reality of the political map and the free will of the voters, and constitute a setback of our democratic experience and of the achievements that our country has accumulated in this area.
The PJD Parliament praised “the collective resignation of the General Secretariat which embodies the principle of linking responsibility and accountability, which constitutes rare political behavior on the partisan scene”.
In this wake, the PJD announced the election of the Preparatory Commission for its Extraordinary National Congress, the presidency of which has been entrusted to Jamaâ El Mouâtassim, Abdelaziz El Omari, Abdelhaq El Arabi and Nabil Chikhi.
The extraordinary National Congress of the PJD will be held, according to the said press release, by the end of next October, in order to elect a new leadership that will manage the next stage and prepare for the holding of the regular National Congress of the party.
Note that with 13 seats won in the parliamentary elections on Wednesday, the Justice and Development Party (PJD) entered the annals of politics, apparently becoming the first party to have seen its score divided by ten between two elections. (125 seats in 2016). An unprecedented debacle.
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