Morocco : Thus the rules were disrupted at the ‘Makhzen’ of Mohammed VI

Hassan II used to allow the opposition, both from within and outside institutions, to use the term ‘Makhzen’ instead of ‘palace’ or ‘king’, and to attribute all evils to that gelatinous entity. This served, firstly, as a collusive understanding to shield the king from primary responsibility for many forms of corruption and despotism. Secondly, it was meant to suggest that the Makhzen, even if headed by the king, transcends the king. Through that, the implicit message was: if the king is the primary responsible for economic corruption and political and social decay, he is not solely responsible. That was the gateway to promoting the naive idea, intended to convince the gullible that: ‘The king is good, but those around him are corrupt.’

When the Democratic Bloc objected to the presence of Driss Basri in the aborted alternation government of 1993, Hassan II said to Mhamed Boucetta, who was a candidate to lead that government: ‘Oh, Si Mahamed… leave Driss between us; you wipe him, and I will wipe him.’ This is procedural proof of the permission to pin the dysfunctions on the necks of the Makhzen’s men.

Driss Basri used to say: ‘I am the lock whose key is with our master.’ Everyone knew that everything Basri, Dlimi, Oufkir, Hosni Ben Slimane, Abdelhak El Kadiri, M. Hafid El Aloui… committed of heinous crimes was done on the orders of Hassan II. Within limits, it was permissible to wipe the burden of those crimes onto those officials, whose employment contract with the king contained a single clause: declaring ‘I am a slave sharpened for the throat of our master.’

Prosecuting the head of a party (Professor Jamal Baraâj) and activists from the same party (the Democratic Path Party) because they called for the overthrow of the Makhzen resembles Trump and his ally Netanyahu’s second aggression in March 2026 against Iran, under the pretext of eliminating its nuclear ambitions, after they told us they had destroyed Iran’s uranium during the first aggression in June 2025.

Didn’t Mohammed El Yazghi, as a minister, tell us that the Makhzen is dead? He was followed by the drummers of the new (now old) era with cheers, congratulations, and affirmations. If the Makhzen had truly died, the regime would have considered the Democratic Path activists’ demand to overthrow the Makhzen as striking a dead body: worthless, not deserving investigation and intimidation.

Now, the investigation of activists from the Democratic Path Party on charges of seeking to overthrow the Makhzen — even though the party has long called for dismantling the Makhzen mafia, whether during the reign of the late king or the king about to depart (we don’t know which one is former) — proves two things:

-The Makhzen (i.e., the traditional despot) has risen from its ashes, strengthened and empowered by its strategic alliance with the usurping entity [Israel].

-The new, renewed Makhzen — unlike the old Makhzen — has lost the rules of the game, and like a blind camel, it thrashes about blindly. »

By Soulaiman Raïssouni

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