| Sumario: | On the twentieth anniversary of his enthronement, Mohammed VI acknowledged “the inability of our development model to meet the growing needs of part of our citizens, to reduce social inequalities and spatial disparities.”2 He had previously spoken in this regard to Parliament in 2017, pointing out the model’s “difficulties and hortcomings” and thus implicitly “questioning his development policy for the first time.”4 Starting in 2019, however, he began to present the issue as a priority on the royal and state agenda, announcing the creation of a commission to propose a new development model. Over 2019 and 2020, this agenda was further marked by the emergence of the health, social and economic crises linked to the coronavirus and a renewed social unrest challenging the violation of individual freedoms
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