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Morocco’s Islamist PJD party said it will join the opposition after leading the government for two consecutive terms. The Party’s general secretariat members said they were resigning including its leader Saad Dine El Otmani. The party is in disarray after it came eighth in general elections with only 13 in the 395-seat parliament, in what […]
The September 8 elections in Morocco were propitious to the liberal RNI party, chaired by Aziz Akhannouch, as it won 102 seats in the 395-member House of Representatives. Such was not the case for the Islamist PJD party, which led the government for two successive terms, since 2011. The PJD actually suffered a crushing defeat, […]
Several major economic and social challenges are awaiting the next government to be formed in Morocco following the landslide victory scored by the liberal parties to the detriment of the moderate Islamist PJD party in the parliamentary, regional, and local elections held September 8. According to the latest results of the counting of the ballots, […]
The United States donated Tuesday several vehicles and forensic lab test equipment to Morocco’s national Police to facilitate drug trafficking investigations and other operations. The donation was a joint effort between the US Africa Command (AFRICOM), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics & Law Enforcement (INL), says a […]
President of the Paris-based Arab World Institute (IMA), Jack Lang, paid tribute to King Mohammed VI for his “strong” and “continuous” commitment to the preservation of Jewish-Moroccan culture, history, and heritage. “Morocco is a unique case in the world,” said Lang in an interview with MAP, at a time when the IMA is preparing to […]
Moroccan social democrat party RNI won a slight majority, followed by its PAM counterpart, and conservative Istiqlal in the parliamentary elections in which voters dealt a heavy blow to the PJD. RNI won 97 seats, PAM 82, Istiqlal 78, socialist USFP 35, while MP took 26 seats, the UC 18 and the PJD came eighth […]
The turnout rate of the legislative, regional and local elections held Sept.08 in Morocco reached 50.35 pc, a rate higher than the 43% turnout in the 2016 polls, an increase that shows that Moroccans want change. Commenting the sky-high turnout, Aziz Akhannouch, Head of the National Rally of Independents (RNI), said the participation of […]
The United States Embassy in Rabat has congratulated Morocco on successfully holding the general elections this Wednesday sept. 8. This came in a tweet posted on the embassy’s website page this evening. “The United States Embassy congratulates the Kingdom of Morocco on successfully holding general elections today,” tweeted the embassy. “Our shared commitment to democratic […]
Turnout in Morocco’s parliamentary, municipal and regional elections improved to 50.35%, slightly higher than in 2016, with the southern provinces registering higher voter participation rate. As polls closed at 19:00, half Moroccans eligible to vote casted ballot. The turnout rate was higher in Morocco’s Sahara with 66.9% in Laayoune-Sakia-El Hamra, 63.7% in Guelmim-Oued Noun, and […]
The participation rate at the elections held in Morocco, this Wednesday September 8 reached 50.18 %, according to official results. The record turnout in these elections which brought for the first time together legislative, regional and local elections, was recorded in the region of Laâyoune-Sakia-El Hamra with 66.94%. Overall, like in previous polls held in […]