Morocco

Morocco

 Morocco is a country with a constitutional parliamentary monarchy with an elected parliament. The 2011 parliamentary elections were monitored by international observers for the second time in Morocco, and despite this, the participation rate reached 45,44% of the total voters. The winner in the last elections is the Justice and Development Party, after obtaining 125 seats in the parliament. Saad Eddin occupied Othmani of the Justice and Development Party as prime minister of the Kingdom of Morocco after the removal of Abdelilah Benkirane.

Morocco or (officially: the Kingdom of Morocco) is an Arab country located in the far west of North Africa with its capital in Rabat and its largest city, Casablanca, which is the economic capital, and among the most important cities: Salé, Fes, Marrakech, Meknes, Tangier, Agadir, Safi, Tetouan, and Wazzan, Oujda, Settat, Taza, Laayoune (city) and Al-Hoceima. Morocco overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, with the Strait of Gibraltar in the middle; it is bordered to the east by Algeria (a dispute over the Moroccan border with Algeria) and south by Mauritania. In the narrow maritime barrier separating Morocco and Spain, three Spanish shrouds are Ceuta, Melilla and the Comoran rock.

Morocco has been a member of the United Nations since 1956, the League of Arab States since 1958, the International Olympic Committee since 1959, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation since 1969, the International Organization of la Francophonie since 1981, and a founding member of the Arab Maghreb Union since 1989, the Mediterranean Dialogue Group since 1995, the Seventy-Seven Group since 2003 and NATO. Morocco has been recently elected as a new non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for a two-year term.،From January 2012 to December 2013, he is a member of the African Union, which replaced the Organization of African Unity (OAU), from which Morocco withdrew in 1984 because of its refusal to recognize its sovereignty over the Moroccan Sahara.However, it has a special place in the Union: Union countries, such as the African Development Bank Group. In 2008, the EU granted Morocco advanced status in the Association and Neighborhood Agreements, which enables Morocco to participate in some European agencies. Morocco also agreed to gradually join the Gulf Cooperation Council following an invitation to join in 2011.

Morocco's system of government is a constitutional, democratic, social and monarchy. According to the 2011 revision of the Moroccan constitution, the king has some limited powers. The government allows opposition political parties, many of which have been established in previous years. The head of government (formerly known as the prime minister before 2011) is head of the Moroccan government and the multi-party system. The government exercises executive power, and the legislature shares the two branches of parliament, the House of Representatives and the House of Councilors. The Moroccan constitution provides for the independence of the judiciary against the legislative and executive branches.

The Moroccan Parliament consists of two chambers, the Chamber of Deputies and the Chamber of Advisors. Members of the House of Representatives are elected by direct universal suffrage for a term of five years; This council is composed of 325 members. The House of Counselors consists of 270 members elected for nine years, three-fifths of whom are elected in each part of the Kingdom.

Morocco is a country with multiple national, demographic, linguistic and cultural components. Throughout its history, this country has embraced many human elements coming from the East, such as the Phoenicians, Oriental Jews and Arabs, or from the South, such as Africans from sub-Saharan Africa, or from the north, such as the Romans, the Vandals and the Jews. Europeans. All of these human components have had an impact on the ethnic and social structure, which includes national pluralism. Religiously, Islam remains the official and most widespread religion in the country, with two Jewish and Christian minorities.

Morocco also houses a number of World Heritage sites, landmarks nominated by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee for inclusion in the World Heritage Sites Program. Each heritage site is the property of the state within its borders, but it receives the attention of the international community to make sure it is preserved for future generations. All 180 member states of the Convention are involved in the maintenance of these sites, many of which are acquired by Morocco: