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One day in the small town of K***, the president of the municipal council slapped the daughter of a powerful elite. On the basis of this anecdote, the author discusses the existence of a public space of speech in Morocco, underlining the ambiguities of the “democratic transition” initiated by the king. He shows that, while one may put their “private reason to public use” in local spaces of power, modes of denunciation do not constitute, properly speaking, modes of enunciating “the political.”