The Moroccan government is "certain" that a draft constitution promising greater freedoms will win a wide support in a referendum that is due to be held in July while left-wing parties and a banned Islamist group are calling for boycotting the vote, Al-Jazeera reported on 21 June. Rachid Balghiti, a member of the 20 February movement, which has organised a wave of protests to demand far reaching reforms, said since its launch, the movement has been consistently demanding a "democratic constitution". "The draft constitution has a different wording and contains nice slogans but from a legal perspective it is actually not much different from previous constitutions that we have had since 1962," Balghiti argued.