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Monday 7 May 2018

Morocco's Accession to Pan-African Parliament Formalized

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 Morocco's Accession to Pan-African Parliament Formalized

 

Morocco's accession to the Pan-African Parliament (PAP, based in South Africa) was formalized at the opening of the sixth ordinary session of the Pan-African legislative institution on Monday in Midrand, near Johannesburg.

Five MPs representing the Justice and Development Party (PJD), the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), the Constitutional Union (UC), the Istiqlal Party (PI) and the Popular Movement (MP) were sworn in alongside 73 parliamentarians from other countries.

Morocco's formal accession to the PAP takes place after the ratification of the 2004 Protocol establishing the African economic community on the Pan-African Parliament.

This accession is decisive for the Kingdom, after regaining its place within the African Union (AU) and given its achievements on the continent.

Membership of the Pan-African Parliament will strengthen Morocco's position at the level of the African continent and will give a new dimension to the Kingdom's contribution to political, legislative and economic development efforts. It also completes its accession to the various AU bodies.

The Pan-African Parliament is one of the nine organs proposed in the 1991 Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community (Abuja Treaty). Its purpose, as set out in article 17 of the AU Constitutive Act, is "to ensure the full participation of African peoples in the development and economic integration of the continent".

The Parliament has up to 250 members representing the 50 AU Member States that have ratified the Protocol establishing it (five members per Member State).

MAP 07 May 2018