RABAT- Morocco’s King Mohammed scored a landslide victory in a referendum on a reformed constitution he proposed to placate ‘Arab Spring’ protests as voters defied critics who said it did little to curb his powers. Preliminary results of Friday’s poll showed 98.5 percent of voters approved the text, Interior Minister Taib Cherkaoui declared on state media, citing returns from 94 percent of polling booths. Final results could take several days. The charter explicitly grants executive powers to the government but retains the king at the helm of the cabinet, army, religious authorities and the…
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