By: The Associated Press | 09/25/11 1:03 PM
The Associated Press
Thousands of Moroccans have demonstrated against the government in the North African kingdom’s biggest city, threatening to boycott the upcoming elections.
The weekly demonstration by the pro-democracy February 20 movement on Sunday attracted around 10,000 people who marched through Casablanca’s sprawling lower income neighborhood of Sbata.
The demonstrators chanted for greater freedoms and an end to corruption and when asked if they would vote, they shouted “no.”
Morocco’s Nov. 25 parliamentary elections will be closely watched as they follow the passing of a new reformist constitution.
Demonstrators have dismissed the reforms put forward by king as just window dressing, leaving the monarch with all his powers.
