After the 2016 elections, protests continued to occur; in 2016 and 2017, a movement known as Hirak Rif demonstrated in the streets of northern Morocco against corruption and unemployment.[1] In 2017, the Freedom of the Press report upgraded Morocco's rating to "partly free".[2] By June 2019, the BBC reported that "almost half of Moroccans [were] considering emigrating" to other countries.[6] The Economist Intelligence Unit rated Morocco a "hybrid regime" in 2019.[9][needs update]