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Today’s editorial in The Washington Post speaks approvingly (mostly) of the reforms proposed last week by the Moroccan king. It describes Morocco, potentially, as a “crucial theater as the Arab Spring moves toward summer.” It describes the proposed plan as “a flawed but potentially workable way forward, both for [Morocco] and other Arab monarchies.”
The editorial sounds a cautionary and tempered note, stating that the reforms would stop “well short of the opposition’s demand for a genuine democracy,” but adds that power would be shifted to an elected parliament. It also stresses that the plan would “workable” if all Moroccans see it “as the beginning and not the end of a political transition.”
