Protest in Morocco Dynamic of Struggle and Transformation

Abstract

The 1990s protest movement in Morocco expresses the degree of coexistence achieved by political and social activists, their renouncement to violence and acceptance of divergence in political action, and their demand for alternation of power. In 1998, with the government change, Moroccans defended their right to participate in the public sphere and protested the failure of government social policy to achieve the desired development. In 2011, thanks to the dynamism of the Moroccan February 20 movement, they were able to achieve a certain level of constitutional and political change, after the wider Arab Spring Movement. Equally, the political regime demonstrated a notable strategic intelligence, through its constant ability for gradual opening, the organization of periodic appeasement gestures and signaling its intent for revision, reform, and change where needed.