In a letter to the king, the collective behind the mobilization of young Moroccans denounces the government’s failure “to protect the constitutional rights of [citizens] and to respond to their social demands”. Demonstrators gathered in their thousands Thursday evening, for the sixth evening in a row.
The day after a night of violence that left three dead, the collective of young Moroccans GenZ 212 (like Morocco’s telephone code), which appeared recently, called on Friday October 3 for the resignation of the government. For the sixth evening in a row, young Moroccans demonstrated, Thursday evening, for better health and education services.
“We demand the dissolution of the current government for its failure to protect the constitutional rights of Moroccans and to respond to their social demands,” declared the collective to the unknown founders, with 150,000 members on its Discord page, in a press release addressed to the King of Morocco, Mohammed VI. These social demonstrations, unprecedented in their spontaneity, follow protests born in mid-September in several cities after the death at the public hospital in Agadir (south) of eight pregnant women admitted for cesarean sections. “The people want health and education,” dozens of demonstrators brandishing Moroccan flags chanted Thursday in the shopping district of Agdal, in the center of Rabat, the Moroccan capital, where the mobilization ended peacefully, according to a journalist from Agence France-Presse (AFP).
