Morocco’s premier Akhannouch announces coalition agreement

Aziz Akhannouch said the three biggest winners of this month’s parliamentary election had agreed to form a new cabinet.

Morocco’s prime minister-designate, Aziz Akhannouch, says an agreement has been reached between three parties to form a new coalition government.

Akhannouch said on Wednesday that the three biggest winners of this month’s election – the liberal National Rally of Independents (NRI) and the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), and the conservative Istiqlal – have agreed to form a new cabinet.

King Mohammed VI on September 10 designated Akhannouch, the leader of RNI, to form a new government after his party came first in the election, taking 102 of the 395 seats in Parliament.