The Moroccan general elections of late November 2011 can best be seen as a staging post in a much longer process of transition and change than can be captured by reference to the region-wide “Arab Spring” alone. The question to be posed is whether these elections constitute a case of “Moroccan catch-up” with the dynamic of events further east along North Africa´s littoral, or whether they reflect the culmination of domestic pressures that have been responded to in as timely a fashion as Morocco´s pre-existing dynamic of gradual reform can withstand.