as they search for and hope to rescue loved ones still trapped under rubble. Yet the country’s leadership has been selective in the help being accepted.
Farhan Haq, the deputy spokesman for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, told journalists on 11 September that the UN is ready to pitch in but has to be invited. “The authorities do not want to accept help from Algeria and France, but because it does not want to be explicit in excluding them, the authority is making it a general policy,” Mr Abdelmoumni said. “Also, the marketers of the king’s image are worried about having people coming here and going back with the official image of how much people were suffering in very hard conditions before the earthquake and how these areas were totally abandoned, how the government is weak, corrupt and inefficient.
“Morocco tries to portray itself as a modern society that has elections and political parties, but that’s all facade. It is a very authoritarian, despotic regime,” the source said. “What you see is similar to the same thing in North Korea, and this earthquake has shown it because nobody was able to do anything until the king came. The system is too centralized. In disasters, you need prompt decisions, but this was not possible because all decisions rest with the king, who was far away.
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