A demonstration in the town of Al-Hoceima, Morocco July 20, 2017. Picture by: YOUSSEF BOUDLAL/Reuters/PA Images. All rights reservedMorocco is like a large boat with small holes. If the captain and the crew do not plug the holes in time and firmly, they will get bigger and the vessel will sink.
As the social mood in the northern region of the Rif remains tense and the political environment in the rest of the Kingdom stays edgy, now is the time for the Palace to take stock of the state of the nation and assume its responsibility for drafting a plan to meet people’s basic social and political demands.
Hence, for those “officials” who want to protect the Monarchy, there is no way around presenting to the King the extent of the crisis and charting new radical solutions to tackle the ever growing social discontent engulfing the nation.
