U.S. Center: “Moroccan Regime Is Autocratic, Algeria Is More Democratic”

Recent study that is issued by the American Center For The Regimes’ Safety, which prepares analysis of social and political problems in the world regimes, ranked Algeria within the democratic countries (close to average), while Morocco ranked within the authoritarian countries, alongside with some African totalitarian countries with autocratic regimes.

According to the American Center, which relies on a ranking that is distributed from 10/10 indicators, the countries that did not enter the democracy yet, are under zero, and Algeria gets the mark (2), I.e it is included with the countries that live a democratic state, and it is close to average according to the Center’s standards, while the Moroccan regime failed in the exam and gets the mark (4) as an autocratic and weak country, like Angola, Chad, Togo and Thailand.

In more details, the study’s criteria are built on two major indicators, “Authority of the President” and “Political competition”, as Algeria was better than its western neighbour, as it recorded 5 points on the indicator of “limited power”, while it does not exceed the limited point of “The president’s authority” in Morocco, 4/10 only, or what is called by the study the “somehow limited authority”.

On the level of the index of “political competition”, the US study gives Algeria 6/10, with a mark that is close to the competition, while the level of competition does not exceed 3 points for Morocco, because it is “oppressing its people”, according to the Center’s description, and it is the weakest among the Kingdom’s neighbours which are, Algeria, Tunisia and Mauritania.

Thus, it is clear to observers that the set of reforms that were initiated by the President Abdelaziz Bouteflika since 201, resonated in the western monitoring circles, despite the criticisms which had been affected in the interior, in contrast, the study exposed the Moroccan regime, which praised, since years, the constitutional reforms, and does not hesitate in calling the neighbours to use the military rule, to appear in the end for what it is now, not only as an autocratic monarchy that exploit partisan interfaces which does not have the power of decision and active, and it is still far from joining the modern democratic states.

U.S. study granted Tunisia a 7/10 mark in the overall assessment, as a country with an average democracy, while Spain got 10/10 points, as a “full democracy”, and France obtained 9/10 as a “high-democratic country”, according to the center’s ranking.