The sterility of Morocco’s maneuvers traps it in the web of details: How the ‘autonomy’ proposal turned into a strategic impasse strangling the Makhzen?
The analysis by the prominent Moroccan media figure and journalist, Abou Bakr Jamaï, on the reality of human rights regressions in Morocco was not merely a reading of the crude legislative texts pushed through by the Makhzen. He went further, putting his finger on the sensitive nerve of the greatest diplomatic illusion promoted by the regime in Rabat. During a symposium organized by the Moroccan Body for the Support of Political Detainees, Jamaï detonated a political truth that the Makhzen media has long tried to conceal under a sieve of propaganda. He affirmed that the Makhzen system is now living through a ‘genuine strategic impasse and an international scandal’ because of the ‘autonomy’ plan it presented as an illusory solution to the Sahara issue, after its maneuvers collided with the wall of reality and the sterility of the structural components of an authoritarian regime lacking the most basic conditions for democracy.
Paralyzed negotiations: The Polisario Front exposes the Moroccan mirage
With the acumen of an analyst familiar with the inner workings of international decision-making, Jamaï revealed that the negotiations between Morocco and the Polisario Front, under American sponsorship, are in a state of complete paralysis and total standstill. The reason is not procrastination, but the decisive diplomatic offensive led by the Front, based on a solid field and political reality. The Sahrawi party has succeeded in promoting a realistic and legal approach before the international community and American supervisors: Morocco is selling a mirage. Rabat, which promotes the ‘autonomy’ plan in international forums, completely lacks the political foundations, constitutional prerequisites, and executive mechanisms to implement this proposal on the ground. Simple logic imposes a fundamental question the Makhzen cannot answer: How can a system that grants neither autonomy nor democracy to its own people in Casablanca, Tangier, and the Rif, grant it to a people demanding sovereignty and independence?
The trap of details: Absence of democracy nullifies the fig leaves
The argument that exposed Rabat’s maneuver is based on deconstructing the structure of the Moroccan system. The Makhzen rushed to formulate the ‘autonomy’ proposal as a ‘marketing product’ within the framework of international public relations to buy time and circumvent the UN mission to organize a self-determination referendum. But as soon as international parties demanded moving from vague slogans to discussing the ‘technical, political, and institutional details’ of how to manage this autonomy, the structural flaw of the system appeared:
- Authoritarian constitutional structure: As Jamaï affirmed, the Moroccan constitution, in its origin and essence, is an undemocratic constitution, concentrating all political, military, religious, and economic powers in the hands of the king and the narrow circle of the Makhzen.
- Impossibility of sharing sovereignty: The concept of ‘autonomy’ in international legal terms implies a genuine sharing of sovereignty, an independent judiciary, and a regional parliament with actual legislative powers. This totally contradicts the Makhzen’s existential doctrine based on absolute centralization and comprehensive police control.
- Lack of institutional integrity: In a country where the judiciary and police are ranked among the most corrupt sectors according to the World Justice Project index, talking about legal guarantees for autonomy becomes a crude political joke that doesn’t even fool the UN.
‘The Makhzen system has placed itself in a historic predicament: it formulated a proposal it has neither the capacity nor the political will to implement, because applying the slightest clause of genuine autonomy would automatically mean dismantling the authoritarian structure of the Makhzen, and thus the collapse of the rentier and control system from its very foundation.’
The dichotomy of fear and external leverage: Betting on Trump and Pegasus
This intractable impasse in the Western Sahara file directly translates into the regime’s behavior on both the internal and external levels. The Makhzen mixes reliance on a transient foreign power with hysterical fear of the street:
- The losing bet on Trump: The Moroccan system banks on US President Donald Trump and his previous tweets, forgetting – according to experts’ readings – that he will not remain in office and will leave after a few years, leaving the Makhzen alone to face international legitimacy and the inevitability of history.
- Zionist espionage software: Incapable of presenting an attractive political model, the power resorted to the abhorrent Zionist entity, obtaining from it dirty espionage tools like the Pegasus software to track opponents, journalists, and free voices, and to corner the honorable opponents of normalization who expose the bargaining of the Palestinian cause for the illusion of sovereignty over the Sahara.
- Panic over ‘Generation Z’: The fear manifests in crude judicial prosecutions and arrests targeting the youth of ‘Generation Z’ and activists. The judiciary and police act outside the law and without respect for procedures, in a pathetic attempt to repress a conscious youth movement that masters technology and pushes for genuine democracy separating power from wealth.
The end of the play… No alternative to international legitimacy
The ‘autonomy’ that the Makhzen wanted as a lifeline to escape the referendum has become, through the resilience of the Sahrawi people and the sterility of the Moroccan political structure, a noose tightening around the neck of Moroccan diplomacy.
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