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Youth and Democratic Governance in Morocco
From December 07, 2012 until December 11, 2012
On Tuesday December 11th, Casa Árabe and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) launched this debate within the framework of AECID’s MASAR program.
Youth representatives from the main Moroccan parties took part in it. For instance, Mohamed Ghayi (Justice and Development Party, PJD), Mustapha Amay (Socialist Union of Popular Forces, USFP), Aziz Dermoumi (People's Movement, MP), Mansour Lambarki (Independence Party, PI), Younes Sekkouri (Authenticity and Modernity Party, PAM), Younès Abchir (National Rally of Independents, RNI), and Driss Er-Radouany (Party of Progress and Socialism, PPS).
The event was chaired by José Luis Martín Yagüe, Department Manager of Cooperation with the Arab World and Asia at the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), and introduced by Eduardo López Busquets, director general of Casa Árabe. It took place at 19.30 at the institution’s Auditorium in Madrid (c/Alcalá, 62). The debate was held in Arabic and there was simultaneous interpretation.
The Programme to Accompany the Processes of Democratic Governance in the Arab World, known as MASAR Program, is a regional multidisciplinary initiative planned by the AECID to contribute to underpin the ongoing democratization processes, through solid institutions which may guarantee the stability of those new political systems which arose out of the Arab Spring and out of those who were already on their transition towards democracy. Spain may contribute to underpin the Rule of Law, always from a stance of accompanying the priorities of the reform on the beneficiary Arab countries, through knowledge transfer to Arab world institutions. This approach has to include interaction with civil society, and, specially, with the youth, the engine of those changes which started on December 2010, as well as to reflect its ideological diversity.
The event was chaired by José Luis Martín Yagüe, Department Manager of Cooperation with the Arab World and Asia at the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), and introduced by Eduardo López Busquets, director general of Casa Árabe. It took place at 19.30 at the institution’s Auditorium in Madrid (c/Alcalá, 62). The debate was held in Arabic and there was simultaneous interpretation.
The Programme to Accompany the Processes of Democratic Governance in the Arab World, known as MASAR Program, is a regional multidisciplinary initiative planned by the AECID to contribute to underpin the ongoing democratization processes, through solid institutions which may guarantee the stability of those new political systems which arose out of the Arab Spring and out of those who were already on their transition towards democracy. Spain may contribute to underpin the Rule of Law, always from a stance of accompanying the priorities of the reform on the beneficiary Arab countries, through knowledge transfer to Arab world institutions. This approach has to include interaction with civil society, and, specially, with the youth, the engine of those changes which started on December 2010, as well as to reflect its ideological diversity.