Morocco has held an election. That sentence is true. It is not yet the whole truth. On September 23, Moroccans voted for 395 members of parliament. Twenty-seven parties competed. They argued about jobs, wages, housing, education and healthcare—the ordinary matters through which politics either serves people or rehearses speeches at them. Yet Morocco is a constitutional monarchy in which the king still holds significant political, military and religious authority. The winning party can form a government. It does not inherit the entire house. The ballot can rearrange the furniture while someone else keeps several important keys. This does not make voting useless. Parliament legislates. Governments administer public services. Elections can widen representation, punish incompetence and force neglected problems into public view. But democracy should not be measured only by whether citizens were given paper, ink and a queue. It should also be measured by how much power enters the polling ...
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