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Murad Alami, Head of the Public Prosecution and Criminal Policy Enforcement and Crime Phenomenon Analysis Pole at the Public Prosecution, confirmed on Friday, October 2nd, that the September 23, 2026 elections took place normally and well, highlighting that the number of complaints registered for these elections (403 complaints) decreased compared to the number of complaints registered in the 2021 elections (1071 complaints).
Mr. Alami explained that, based on its constitutional powers, "the public prosecutions received the equivalent of 403 complaints, some of which were registered directly with the public prosecutions, and others were registered electronically through the IT applications prepared by the Public Prosecution for citizens, which allow them to submit their complaints remotely electronically."
He emphasized that the voting day witnessed an increase in the number of registered complaints, as this day saw the largest number of complaints recorded.
He affirmed that the judicial investigations opened in this regard were characterized by accuracy, efficiency, and the necessary speed required by the stage, as the average completion time for investigations did not exceed 48 hours.
By analyzing the nature of the electoral violations registered at the level of the public prosecutions, it is observed that most of them relate to common crimes, usually committed during election campaigns, such as violence, mutual insults, and infringement of private life.
Mr. Alami recorded an increase in the number of crimes committed through electronic means, i.e., through social media, where a number of complaints were registered in this regard, all related to defamation or infringement of private life, for which judicial investigations were opened and legal proceedings were initiated against their perpetrators.
As for the non-delivery of copies of minutes to candidate representatives, it was limited in number and geographical scope, with four complaints registered distributed among the local electoral districts of Guelmim, Fahs-Anjra, and Souk El Arbaa du Gharb, for which judicial investigations were opened and legal measures were taken. Two complaints were decided to be archived due to lack of proof of the criminal act, and two are still under investigation.
Mr. Alami recalled that the organic law related to the House of Representatives precisely regulates in its Article 57 the procedure adopted to obtain these copies of the minutes, so that the heads of polling stations hand over these copies to the candidate representatives who are present during the preparation of these minutes.
In this context, he explained that this crime related to the non-delivery of polling minutes requires a specific condition, which is the presence of the candidate's representative inside the polling station at the moment the minutes are drafted. He added that if the person leaves the station and returns later after the counting process and the drafting of the polling minutes are completed, the legal elements of the crime are not met, and naturally, there is no room here to initiate legal proceedings in this regard in the absence of the basic legal condition.
Thus, the September 23 elections were directly monitored by the public prosecutions, through precise follow-up of their stages, strict application of the law, and ensuring that these elections proceeded in a sound atmosphere where the legal controls governing this process were respected.
