Results of Moroccan Reform Vote More Complicated Than the Numbers

Writing as a foreign observer of the July 1 Referendum, Tom Stevenson of the Huffington Post says the impact of the Moroccan reforms are much harder to assess than the numbers would indicate. He questions the likelihood of 98.5% of the Moroccan people agreeing on a series of constitutional changes and opines that the vote itself was much more a referendum on King Mohammed VI as it was on “minor reforms.”