By Tarik El Barakah
Morocco World News
Agadir, July 8, 2013
Months of escalating tension between the Istiqlal Party (IP) and the party of Justice and Development (PJD), the major components of the ruling coalition in Morocco, have come to an end after the executive committee of the IP decided on Monday to implement its suspended decision to withdraw from the PJD-led government and join the opposition.
Adil Ben Hamza, the spokesperson of the IP announced in a video posted on the party’s official page on Facebook that Hamid Chabat, the Secretary General of the IP, made a phone call with King Mohammed VI to inform him of his party’s final decision to withdraw from the government after what he described as “desperate” attempts to avoid this outcome.
According to the same source, the decision will take effect tomorrow when all of the party’s ministers participating in the coalition will resign their government posts.
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