Rabat, April 16 -- Morocco's ruling Justice and Development Party (PJD) party has finally decided to punish Amina Maelainine, a female PJD MP at the heart of a party scandal since January for appearing to wear "un-Islamic" clothing.

During a party meeting on Saturday, April 14, the party's majority spoke in favor of stripping Maelainine of her relatively influential position as seventh vice-president of the House of Representatives, PJD's deputy Secretary General Sliman El Amrani announced on the party's website.

The move is set to complicate the MP's political fate. Maelainine has also subtly been distanced from her previous party visibility. She will be restrained to her seat at the Parliament as the PJD MP for the Hay Hassani distric...