Elections

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• Morocco Accredits 4,500+ National Observers for Upcoming Elections
  26 August 2021, by Jérôme

  As part of the electoral deadlines of September 8 next in Morocco, more than 4,500 observers have just been accredited. Representing 44 national organizations, these observers will be deployed throughout the national territory with 17 NGOs and two international parliaments.
  For accreditation, the respect of the conditions enabling the selected observers to play their role independently has been taken into account, said the president of the National Human Rights Council (CNDH), Amina (…)

• Morocco’s PJD Party Suffers Landslide Defeat in Elections: Experts Analyze Causes
  23 November 2021, by Ginette

  The crushing defeat of the Party of Justice and Development (PJD) continues to provoke reactions among political actors. This is the case of Mohamed Sassi, one of the leaders of the Unified Socialist Party (PSU), who declared that the defeat of the PJD in the September 8 elections was due to the absence of Abdelillah Benkirane and the Covid-19 pandemic.
  The political leader was speaking at a meeting organized on Sunday in Rabat by the Prometheus Institute for Democracy and Human Rights (…)

• Moroccan-American Progressive Falls Short in Massachusetts Congressional Primary
  4 September 2020, by Kamal

  The Moroccan-American Democratic candidate, Ihsane Leckey, lost the race for the US Congress, finishing fifth in the preliminary elections held on Monday in the state of Massachusetts.
  In total, nine candidates had participated in the Democratic primaries to take the seat of Joseph Kennedy. The latter had just suffered a historic defeat in Massachusetts.
  Ihsane Leckey’s defeat, who finished fifth, is a blow to the progressive movement of the Democrats. The party had hoped to strengthen (…)

• Moroccan Feminists Push for Gender Parity in 2021 Elections
  9 September 2020, by Jérôme

  A few months before the elections, the "mounassafa daba" (parity now) coalition is active in strengthening the presence of women in Morocco’s elected bodies. The organization calls for the establishment of a framework law on equality and parity as well as the harmonization of various regulations with this principle.
  For the advent of a new order, the movement has met within a few days the head of government as well as several party leaders, while other meetings with political leaders are (…)

• Nabila Mounib Wins Parliamentary Seat in Morocco’s Casablanca-Settat Region
  9 September 2021, by Ginette

  Nabila Mounib, Secretary General of the United Socialist Party (PSU), registered on the party’s regional list in Casablanca, won a seat on Wednesday, following the legislative elections.
  According to preliminary data, Nabila Mounib is taking the first parliamentary seat in the Casablanca-Settat region.
  Even before the elections, Nabila Mounib had explained that within the FGD, "the concerns were not the same, and not all members gave the same interest to the project of the unified left (…)

• Constitutional Court Invalidates 4 Moroccan MPs’ Election Results in Al Hoceima
  21 May 2022, by Armel

  Elected in the last legislative elections of September 2021, four deputies from the Al Hoceima electoral district have just had their seats invalidated by the Constitutional Court.
  The Constitutional Court, after careful examination of the appeals, decided to invalidate the legislative elections in the Al Hoceima constituency won by four well-known personalities from the region.
  The deputies concerned are:
  • Noureddine Mediane, Head of the Istiqlal group;
  • Mohamed Laarej, elected (…)

• French Municipal Candidate Retracts Call for Turkish-Origin Supporters Amid Backlash
  14 January 2020, by Sylvanus

  The MoDem candidate, Mohamed Dine, is backing down in the face of the controversy sparked by his recruitment message "of women and men of Turkish origin", posted on his Facebook page. Faced with the scale of the controversy, he deleted his announcement.
  In his post dated Thursday, January 9, Mohamed Dine, a candidate in the municipal elections in Clichy-sous-Bois, announces that he is "looking for Turkish men and women" to strengthen his list, reports Le Parisien. This recruitment did not (…)

• Morocco’s Ruling Islamist Party Suffers Major Defeat in Parliamentary Elections
  9 September 2021, by Said

  Severe defeat for the Party of Justice and Development (PJD) in the elections held on Wednesday in Morocco. The Islamist party, in power for 10 years, only obtained 12 seats, compared to 125 in the last legislature.
  As expected, the National Rally of Independents (RNI) won the elections by winning 97 seats after the counting of 96% of the votes, said Interior Minister Abdelouafi Laftit.
  The Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) is in 2nd place with 82 seats, followed by the Istiqlal (…)

• Moroccan Football Club Presidents Win Seats in Parliament Election
  11 September 2021, by Ginette

  There will not only be businessmen, politicians or filmmakers in the Moroccan parliament. Sports association and federation officials were elected on Wednesday and will sit in the House of Representatives.
  For some of these new elected officials, it is a first experience. Before Wednesday, September 8, they were only football club officials. This is the case of the president of Wydad de Casablanca, Said Naciri, a candidate of the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), elected in the (…)

• Trappes Mayor’s Re-election Challenged: Opponent Files Appeal Citing Irregularities
  19 October 2021, by Sylvanus

  Othman Nasrou, a historic opponent of Ali Rabeh, mayor of Trappes, re-elected in the first round of a by-election organized after the cancellation of the 2020 election, has filed an appeal with the administrative court of Versailles.
  Will Ali Rabeh’s re-election, close to Benoît Hamon’s Génération.s movement, be canceled again? His main opponent, Othman Nasrou, a French citizen of Moroccan origin close to Valérie Pécresse (Libres!) has filed an appeal with the administrative court of (…)