Morocco's Interior Ministry reports legal proceedings against 302 local elected officials in 2025, per its own budget-year report.
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H24info (6 Nov 2025) reports that, according to a report presented on the Interior Ministry's 2025 budget-year achievements, judicial proceedings were opened against 302 elected members of local councils: 52 commune presidents, 57 vice-presidents, 124 councillors and 69 former presidents. The ministry also reports 291 complaints from council members, citizens and civil-society groups, mainly over financial and administrative offences, urban-planning irregularities and conflicts of interest, and 216 revocation requests sent to administrative courts, which ruled as appropriate. It says courts dissolved 8 councils for serious dysfunction and ordered 63 officials removed, including 20 commune presidents, 36 vice-presidents and 7 members of professional chambers.
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302 élus locaux déférés à la justice pour des infractions financières et administratives, des irrégularités en matière d'urbanisme ou encore des situations de conflit d'intérêts
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Contacted and made an on-record admission — exact wording not on record.
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