Where does Morocco stand now, three years after the February 2011
protests and the king’s constitutional changes, when viewed in light of
our Table? A close analysis of what the referendum did and did not
change makes it clear that Morocco is certainly not a DPM, or even
moving in that direction. A DPM’s defining chacteristic, let us recall, is
that “only the freely elected parliament forms and terminates the government.”
In Morocco, the king neither has given up his power to choose
who heads the key ministries (Defense, Interior, Foreign Affairs, Justice,
and Religion), nor is under much pressure to do so.