RABAT (Reuters) – Thousands of Moroccans are expected to join nationwide protests today to demand that King Mohammed hand some of his powers to a newly elected government and make the justice system more independent.
The street protests, initiated by the February 20 Movement for Change which has attracted 19,000 Facebook fans after revolts in Egypt and Tunisia, will also urge the king to dismiss the coalition government and dissolve parliament.
The revolutions, especially in neighbour Tunisia, have brought the issue of constitutional reform back onto the agenda after a crackdown that followed suicide bombings in 2003 and the rapid rise of a political party led by a
