Protesters prevent the municipal council meeting from being held

The first vice-president of the Asilah municipal council, Abdelaziz Jbari, declared on Monday, 27 February, that the quorum had been reached with the presence of the majority of councillors at the ordinary session for the month of February. In the absence of Mohamed Benaïssa, president of the municipal council, the councillors agreed to hold this session under the chairmanship of Mohamed Ghaïlan, the oldest of the members present. The president did not have an easy task managing the proceedings of this meeting in the presence of young and old people who had come in large numbers to attend. Mr Ghaïlan was interrupted several times by the public, even before the start of the examination of the first and most important point on the agenda, namely the 2011 administrative account. After reading the document relating to this first point and in response to the request of Zoubeir Bensaïdoun, a…