Leader of Morocco s Justice and Development Party freezes his membership in rejection of normalisation
The Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union in session in Rabat, Morocco on 27 Jul 2017 [Jalal Morchidi/Anadolu Agency] January 20, 2021 at 9:50 am
Abdelaziz Aftati, member of the General Secretariat of the Justice and Development Party (leader of the government coalition in Morocco) confirmed that the thinker and deputy, Abouzaid El Mokrie El Idrissi, decided to freeze his membership to the party following the kingdom s decision to normalise relations with Israel.
In December, Rabat resumed official relations with Tel Aviv, in conjunction with the United States recognition of Morocco s sovereignty over the Sahara region, which has been a matter of a dispute between the Kingdom and the Polisario for decades.