Moroccans have approved constitutional reforms put forward by King Mohammed VI in response to recent pro-democracy protests, preliminary results show.
With almost all the ballots counted, 98.5% of people had voted in favour, Interior Minister Taib Cherkaoui said.
The reforms grant executive powers to a prime minister, but the king is retained as head of the military, religious authorities and judiciary.
The concessions come after protests inspired by the so-called Arab Spring.
Popular uprisings have toppled Presidents Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak of Egypt.
‘Sole player’
The turnout in Friday’s constitutional referendum – the first under King Mohammed’s 12-year rule – was nearly 73%, officials said.
The king did not say anything as he cast his vote in the capital, Rabat, but he has described the reforms as a “decisive historic transition”.
All the country’s main political parties, unions, civic groups, religious leaders and media urged Moroccans to vote in favour of the new constitution.
“I support the king, he keeps Morocco safe. It is not like Algeria and Yemen, it’s stable here,” Rachid Aboul-Hassan, a cab driver in Rabat told the Associated Press on Friday.