As commander of the believers or religious leader of his people, the public presence of the King of Morocco is essential in Ramadan, whether they are charity, theological sessions or Islamic ceremonies. This Monday, March 3, however, his children, he and his sister, took their place to represent him in the traditional delivery of help to the most disadvantaged families during the Sacred Muslim month of fasting and prayer. Against the usual, the monarch will not be able to show itself in public actively during the Ramadan.
A statement from the Royal Foreign Ministry made last Thursday 27 reported that, because of the rehabilitation sessions followed by the 61 -year -old sovereign, it was forced to a surgical intervention in the right shoulder, their movements are limited. He cannot remain sitting for a long time or standing immediately, which complicates his public presence in social and mosque centers. “Your program will be reviewed based on these demands,” said the laconic note spread by the Royal Palace.
In recent years, Mohamed VI has not lacked the appointment with the ritual of the Sacred Muslim month and has returned to his country after spending months of winter vacation in Africa or the Persian Gulf. After returning to Rabat from the United Arab Emirates in mid -February and spending a few days off in Tetuán, in the north of the country, the sovereign is in the capital, where on February 26. The great Muslim holiday of sacrifice, which is celebrated 70 days after the end of Ramadan, has been annulled because of the drought, which has been extended for six years, and of the consequent lack of the prices of sheep cattle that each family must sacrifice to meet the tradition.
Mulay Hasán, 22, and Lala Jadiya, recent For solidarity. In this campaign, it plans to distribute about 35,000 tons of basic foods, with an amount of more than 30 million euros. Its recipients are needy families, particularly elderly, widows or disabled.
Mohamed VI has barely been seen in public since his where a vacation in November passed. In social networks he has been briefly seen in Dubai this winter, and in press photographs of his caravan of vehicles on his return. The public presence of the king is the key that closes the state vault in Morocco, where effective power is concentrated in the Royal Palace. In the last two years, Mohamed VI has been visibly thinner after a decade of obese profile. In and underwent paths of cardiac surgery.
A few days before the start of Ramadan, the cancellation of the Islamic ritual of the sacrifice of a lamb in each home, one of the most symbolic and identity festivities of the Maghreb country, was justified “because of the current difficulties”, due to “the climatic and economic challenges that have caused a substantial decrease in the cattle cabin”, according to a real state Islamic, Ahmed Tufiq. The monarch indicated in the same text that the celebration of this party in these conditions “harms large sectors of the population (…) with limited income.”
The last time this party was annulled in Morocco was in 1996, when King Hassan II ordered him because of the absence of rains. After six years of extreme drought in the Maghreb country, which have left reservations of the reservoirs at an average level located below 30% of their capacity, the measure adopted by the father of the current monarch (which reigned between 1961 and 1999) is repeated three decades later.
Princess Jadiya of Morocco turned 18 last Friday, and with this first official act in which she accompanies her brother and heir on behalf of her father, symbolically reaffirms as the first lady of the monarchy because of the mother of both princes, separated since 2018 from the Royal Family Agenda.
