Foreign Policy Research Institute A Nation Must Think Before it Acts Robert A. Fox Fellow Vish Sakthivel Quoted in Middle East Eye
Robert A. Fox Fellow Vish Sakthivel Quoted in Middle East Eye

Robert A. Fox Fellow Vish Sakthivel Quoted in Middle East Eye

Robert A. Fox Fellow Vish Sakthivel Quoted in Middle East Eye


“According to Vish Sakthivel, the Fox Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Middle East programme and an expert on political Islam in Morocco, the palace and the PJD operate as ‘mutually legitimising forces’.

‘Benkirane has had this unconventional practice of disclosing tensions with the palace, perhaps in discreet attempts to highlight to the public the palace’s [interference],’ Sakthivel said.

‘The last thing the palace wants is this de facto power-sharing situation, but [it also] doesn’t want their efforts to undermine or delegitimise the Islamists to be overt or heavy-handed,’ she added.”

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