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Right-wing French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour on Thursday applauded a now obsolete Moroccan law that only allowed first names “with a Moroccan character” for newborns. Zemmour’s seal of approval for the measure came as a reply to a tweet posted on Wednesday by Mohamed Louizi, a Moroccan essayist living in France. Louizi highlighted the 2002 law governing Moroccan civil status, which orders parents to choose first names with “Moroccan character” for their children. The law “protects Moroccan national identity,” Louizi claimed. Responding to Louizi’s tweet, Zemmour hailed the Moroccan la…