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Source: All Africa
Rabat — Late Princess Lalla Aicha, aunt of HM King Mohammed VI, was a pioneer of Moroccan women's renaissance and a living and completed embodiment of the merger between the country's authenticity and its aspirations to progress, modernity and civic mindedness, highlighted many officials and political leaders.
Recalling that the deceased engaged in nationalist action and endured the pangs of exile with her father late King Mohammed V and the royal family, El Fassi stressed her active involvement in social action as the first director of the National Mutual Aid and diplomatic action as the first Moroccan woman to be the Kingdom's Ambassador to the world most influential capitals.
Moroccans will remember, for a long time, the commendable actions of the deceased as an Arab and Muslim woman who have assumed, for more than half a century, a mission that will be forever etched in the memory of the nation.
For M'hammed Boucetta, senior member of the Istiqlal Party, the deceased, who embodied the virtues of nobility and sincere patriotism, was the symbol of Moroccan women's emancipation since the day she delivered, in April 1947 in Tangier, a speech that would open the door for women's action.
For his part, Ismail Alaoui, senior of the Progress and Socialism Party, noted that the late was a pioneer in women's action, confirming from the outset that Morocco's liberation cannot be achieved without the empowerment of Moroccan women and men.
Former diplomat Ahmed Snoussi, for his part, argued that by accompanying her father, late King Mohammed V, in 1947 in Tangier, the late Princess Lalla Aicha had made "a revolutionary action in many ways," recalling that the deceased was, since childhood, "a true advocate for Morocco's independence along with her father, the hero of liberation."