00:00This is a constitutional parliamentary monarchy that we're talking about.
00:04So do you think that the king can play a role as a mediator between the PM and these Zanzi protesters?
00:11Because the Zanzi protesters have their support for the king.
00:14Yes, so the constitutional monarchy is very complicated and complex in nature.
00:22So dividing powers between a monarch and the legislator and the executive branches,
00:27it's not an easy task.
00:29But that being said, yes, many demonstrators of the youth,
00:33they are looking towards the king to take firm actions or decisions
00:39to address the failure of this political governing elite class
00:43and to improve the degrading public services.
00:49Now, the king also had back in during the Arab Spring,
00:53he had responded positively to the demands of, you know, to all these demonstrations.
01:02So naturally then now also the youth and all the Moroccan youth,
01:06they are expecting, they are looking towards the king.
01:08But the dichotomy, as I mentioned, was that the same reforms due to Arab Spring,
01:14which came about that, the same constitutional reforms,
01:18all of that where the powers are now equally divided between,
01:22the monarchy has less power.
01:24All of that will obviously now make it more difficult for the king
01:28to just simply go ahead and dissolve the current coalition government.
01:32It will require obviously a very broad political consensus
01:37and also deliberate actions from the parliament,
01:42from the government side as well.
01:44So for the king to play a decisive role,
01:48in my personal opinion, I see it's very limited in scope.
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