I have been in Morocco for about 3 weeks now, and my plan was to move on to Tunisia after about 4 weeks. The thing is as I travel in Morocco I keep changing my travel itinerary, adding more places to explore. Considering the many places to see in Morocco: the Atlas mountains; the numerous fascinating cities like Fez, Marrakesh, Tangier, Meknes, and Casablanca; the Atlantic and Mediterranean coastlines, two months now seems like a more adequate amount of time for exploring the country.
Rather than depart for the High Atlas mountains this morning as planned, I decided to extend my stay here in Marrakesh because voting is taking place today on the new proposed constitution, so likely the city will be very lively this evening after the voting is done and, as appears inevitable, the constitutional referendum has been approved by the people. It seems the King/government has been putting out a lot of propaganda encouraging the Moroccan subjects to vote yes, but some reformers are boycotting the election today, claiming that the proposed constitution is the same old same old, failing to take the required steps toward true democracy. One clause mentioned in the proposed constitution states that rather than continue to consider the King as "sacred," he would henceforth be regarded as the "Commander of the Faithful." :
http://en.news.maktoob.com/20090000848224/Morocco_urges_voters_to_back_curbs_on_king_apos_s_powers/Article.htm
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