Two prominent leaders of the Moroccan Jewish community were nominated today as candidates for Morocco’s new Chamber of Deputies, in the national elections to be held May 17. They are Meyer Obadia, president of the Jewish Committee of Casablanca, and Meyer Toledano, now a member of the Casablanca City Council.
Mr. Obadia is running on the ticket of the Front of Constitutional Institutions, a Royalist party founded by Minister of the Interior Reda Guerdira. The constituency which he would represent is a district in this city where Jewish residents are in the majority. He has the official support of the Council of Jewish Communities in Morocco. Mr. Toledano is running on the slate of the National Union of Popular Forces, an opposition party labeled left of the Royalist grouping.
The name of Dr. Leon Benzequen, the “elder statesman” of the Moroccan Jewish community, and former member of the Government Cabinet, had been put forward as a candidate for the elections to the Chamber of Deputies. However, Dr. Benzequen had declined to run.
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