PJD and PAM councillors at daggers drawn

The war of accusations has resumed with a vengeance within the Rabat City Council. This time, it is the PJD councillor Abdeslam Ballaji who is in the line of fire. He is accused by his political opponents from the PAM of having concluded partnership agreements with civil society associations by granting them funds without the approval of the City Council. He is accused of having intervened to recruit his son into the local development company "Rabat Parking". Faced with these accusations launched by the president of the Hassan district council, Driss Razi (PAM), the PJD councillor denies everything: "I have never affixed my signature to the lists of beneficiary associations of subsidies and I challenge anyone to prove that these lists bear my signature," he pointed out, in a press briefing last Friday. He wished to specify that these lists had rather been signed by the president of the…