A proposal to amend Article 20 of the Moroccan Personal Status Law Code, specifically concerning the marriage of minors under the age of 18, has caused division among the ruling majority and opposition groups within the country’s House of Representatives. Demands were made by the progressive parties in parliament for the matter to be referred to the National Human Rights Council (CNDH), which the traditionalist bloc responded to by saying that the reform issue should be referred to the Higher Council of ʿUlemāʾ (scholars) that is presided over by King Muḥammed VI.