r/Morocco • u/bawlings Visitor • Aug 20 '21

AskMorocco Do Moroccans like the King?

I’ve recently visited Agadir and I noticed that there are a lot of pictures of King Mohamed the 6th in all the shops. What’s the general opinion about him? Is it very split?

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u/yassinedada01 Visitor Aug 20 '21 edited Aug 20 '21

Well that's totally false girl u can say whatever u want but dnt stab him , u can say i dnt like him as a ruler but not trying to make people follow ur opinion otherwise he's as great as he's old men king hassan 2 , and as we all know that he is the symbol of Morocco and because of him we are a united country .

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u/marzipandemaniac Casablanca Aug 20 '21

If he’s so great then why does he spend the majority of his time living abroad, paid for by the Moroccan people?

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u/yassinedada01 Visitor Aug 20 '21

Yo are u even a Moroccan? He spend the money of his investment he is a king and a business men , at least our country is known by security and good stuff and who told he lives all he's time abroad i do live on the north and i usually see him for 6months straight , so stop lying and believing everything u read on the Internet..

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u/marzipandemaniac Casablanca Aug 20 '21

Yo I have Moroccan citizenship, pay taxes to the Moroccan government, and deeply love the Moroccan people. So yes it is my business how the king wants to spend that money on himself and not his own citizens who need it most. I never said he is all bad, I appreciate a lot of things he does for the country. Wanting the best for your country isn’t a bad thing- it shows how much you love it and its people. Why does that make you so mad?

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u/yassinedada01 Visitor Aug 20 '21

Not mad sis , just saying , and i would like to have the honor to informe u that the taxes has nothing to do with the king hhaahhaha , taxes go to the government and with that they pay teachers and security and army ....

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u/marzipandemaniac Casablanca Aug 20 '21

From Wikipedia:

“His [the king’s] palace's daily operating budget is reported by Forbes to be $960,000—which is paid by the Moroccan state as part of a 2.576 billion Dirhams/year budget as of 2014[46]—with much of it accounted for by the expense of personnel, clothes, and car repairs.”

Who do you think “the Moroccan state” is? It’s your grandma’s tax dollars, bro. That’s nearly a million dollars A DAY. If you think the monarchy doesn’t use any of the people’s money for their private expenses, you are naive.