Popular Movement (Morocco)

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The Popular Movement (Template:Langx; Template:Langx; Template:Langx, MP) is a royalist and traditionalist rural-focused political party in Morocco. It is a member of Liberal International. The party has a history of cooperating with two other parties with a liberal orientation, the National Rally of Independents and the Constitutional Union, since 1993.

History

The Popular Movement was founded in 1957 by the Berber tribal chief Mahjoubi Aherdane with help from Abdelkrim al-Khatib who founded later a splinter party (Mouvement populaire démocratique et constitutionnel) that became the Justice and Development Party.[1] It was initially a rural party with conservative and tribal orientation,[2] that unconditionally supported the monarchy[1] and aimed at countering the nationalist Istiqlal Party.[2] Despite them being socially conservative, the party claimed to be Islamic socialists.[1][3][4]

They advocated for the distribution of land previously owned by French to tribes and local communities and that communal lands be administrated by communal traditions. They also advocated for the recognition of Berber customary law and a school system where Berber dialects were taught. The Popular Movement was dominated by Berber speakers and had the strongest support from rich peasants and large landowners and was the most active political organisation in the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces.[4] Despite this, it did not have a distinctly Berber agenda and was the major party in the ruling coalition that instituted Arabization in 1965.[5]

The present party results from a 25 March 2006 merger between the main party which had kept the original name and two splinter parties, the National Popular Movement (Mouvement National Populaire) and the Democratic Union (Union démocratique).[6][7]

The party is a full member of Liberal International, which it joined at the latter's Dakar Congress in 2003.[8]

In the parliamentary election held on 27 September 2002, the party won 27 out of the total 325 seats. It improved its standing in the parliamentary election held on 7 September 2007, winning 41 out of 325 seats.[9]

The party won 32 out of 325 seats in the parliamentary election held in November 2011, being the sixth party in the parliament.[10]

Electoral results

Moroccan Parliament

House of Representatives
Election year # of
overall votes 		% of
overall vote 		# of
overall seats won 		+/– Leader
1963* 1,159,932 (#1) 34.8 Template:Composition bar
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Ahmed Bahnini
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1970 ? (#1) 25.0 Template:Composition bar
Decrease 4
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Abdelkrim al-Khatib
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1977 738,541 (#2) 14.64 Template:Composition bar
Decrease 45
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Abdelkrim al-Khatib
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1984 695,020 (#3) 15.54 Template:Composition bar
Increase 32
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Abdelkrim al-Khatib
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1993 751,864 (#5) 12.1 Template:Composition bar
Increase 4
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Mohand Laenser
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1997 659,331 (#4) 10.3 Template:Composition bar
Decrease 11
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Mohand Laenser
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2002 ? (#5) 8.31 Template:Composition bar
Decrease 13
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Mohand Laenser
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2007 426,849 (#3) 9.3 Template:Composition bar
Increase 14
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Mohand Laenser
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2011 354,468 (#6) 7.5 Template:Composition bar
Decrease 11
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Mohand Laenser
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2016 397,085 (#5) 6.1 Template:Composition bar
Decrease 5
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Mohand Laenser
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2021 534,292 (#5) 7.1 Template:Composition bar
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Mohand Laenser
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Notes
  • In 1963, the MP run under the FDIC.

References

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  6. ↑ M’Hamed Hamrouch, Mahjoubi Aherdane accusé d’avoir provoqué le retrait du MP du gouvernement, Aujourd'hui Le Maroc, 19 October 2008
  7. ↑ Hicham Bennani, Mouvement populaire: Prémices d’un éclatement, Le Journal Hebdomadaire, 11 April 2009
  8. ↑ Entry on the Popular Movement Script error: No such module "webarchive". Liberal International.
  9. ↑ "Moroccans favor conservative party instead of ushering in Islamic party", Associated Press (International Herald Tribune), 9 September 2007.
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