Privacy, public life
Addressing the privacy of public figures, let alone when it comes to monarchs, is still a risky exercise. Where does the right to information and begins the realm of the unspeakable? As to complicate things, all over the world, two elements in part to escape the private sphere and impose a public inquiry, as their effects can be significant public interest, which must be the goal of any political system. I am of course talking about the fortunes of Heads of State and their health. Under the whole heaven, property of the Head of State is a particularly sensitive topic. In republican regimes, the question is partly supplanted by the no less important, financing a campaign, and more particularly, to an electoral victory. In monarchies, the question becomes even more acute: the treasure of the royal family is often the sign of dynastic continuity, an insurance against possible setbacks.
In Morocco, one is for sure far from transparent. It would have been otherwise: At the beginning of his reign, Mohammed V, unsure of last, battled to save his fortune away. In 1958, before his Socialist finance minister, Abderrahim Bouabid, very picky about the expenses of the palace, Mohammed V could only bow, after having unsuccessfully demanded that the government offers him a palace in Casablanca. A few years Later, the balance of power had already reversed. Under Hassan II, the "civil list" has exploded, along with the king's private fortune. Mohammed VI was expected to show himself less inclined than his father frantically to make it grow. Quite the opposite happened. In relative transparency, certainly, but with a clear desire of accumulation, which shocked many.
As for possible health problems from a head of state, they question necessarily on its ability to exercise power: common sense readily admits that a sick president can not govern. That's why, for example in France, the various presidents have always enjoyed the mystery about their health. Moreover, a legal perspective, the health of head of state is subject to medical confidentiality, as well as any other citizen. However, France still, many voices were raised calling for the release of medical reports of the President of the Republic, the name of transparency, the very foundation of democracy. But the result inconclusive so far: despite its promises, Francois Mitterrand lied about his prostate cancer, Jacques Chirac has simply never reported on the subject. Nicolas Sarkozy, meanwhile, is not really better than its predecessors. Then the health of French presidents, a taboo subject?
But what about the Moroccan case? health of the monarch is of course surrounded by a halo of mystery ... which embroiders the rumor. After Mohammed V, who died by accident surgery benign after Hassan II, a cancer long hidden, here in 2009 the rumor of the disease affects Mohammed VI, who has visibly gained weight, and whose TV appearances are not made to reassure the populace.
That's no thine, 26 August 2009, Mohammed VI took everyone by surprise. It starts with a statement from the Department of the Royal Household, Protocol and Chancellery, published by the MAP. In short, " His Majesty King Mohammed VI has a rotavirus infection (...) that requires a five-day convalescence. The state of health of His Majesty the King does not warrant concern . The announcement, first of its kind in the era Mohammed VI, is essential information for the media ... who treat their risk and peril. Ten journalists will eventually be heard by the judicial police, five will be charged and the court will make a case for example. On October 15, 2009, Driss Chahtane is thus sentenced to one year in prison, with immediate imprisonment for publishing " in bad faith " and " false information likely to disturb public order . Its publication, Mishaal Al guilty of having gave voice to a doctor explaining the nature and symptoms of rotavirus, as well as interviewing the English journalist Pedro Canales saying its medical sources in Paris had assured him that Mohammed VI was suffering from an incurable disease. Spreading rumors or real investigative journalism? The Moroccan justice ruled: it does not gloss over the king's health, any more than investigates it.
The intimacy of the Head of State remains as an impenetrable wall, even when the utmost interest to the smooth running of the state. The problem is that the Moroccan king staged his privacy when she shows it to his advantage. Who does not remember pictures of Mohammed VI in jet ski on the edge of his reign, as if by magic bloomed in all the kingdom medina? Who can forget the images of the grand royal wedding duly broadcast by all media in the country? Mohammed VI also plays its intimacy as the ultimate reward. The proximity of the sovereign is, in fact, become a power struggle between courtiers. In an incredible mix of styles between privacy and public life, Mohammed VI does in his private officials that the most faithful and those who hunt in his eyes, demerit. The intimacy of the king is so dreamed and fantasized. It becomes a component of the hiba Sharifian the opposite of a transparent democracy.
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