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Morocco’s Parliament elects bureau with 293 votes

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Morocco’s House of Representatives elected its bureau with a majority of 293 votes out of 295 ballots cast, with Mustapha Baitas as first vice-president. Several MPs were also appointed as vice-presidents, quaestors, secretaries and committee chairs, according to Lavieeco.

Morocco’s Parliament elected its bureau with 293 votes out of 295 ballots cast, with two ballots declared invalid, according to an announcement by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ahmed Touizi. Mustapha Baitas, of the National Rally of Independents (RNI) group, became first vice-president, ahead of Khalid Chennak, of the Istiqlalian Unity and Egalitarianism group, and Abdellah Bouanou, of the Justice and Development group.

The single list also included Mohamed Ouzzine, of the Haraki group, elected fourth vice-president; Mohamed Mellal, of the Socialist group, fifth; and Mohamed Joudar, of the Constitutional Democratic and Social group, sixth. Meryem Ouhssata, of the Progress and Socialism group, was also among the elected members of the House of Representatives bureau.

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