Moroccan Islamist Party Alleges Widespread Election Irregularities

The PJD is not about to forget its historic debacle. In a statement, the Islamist party denounces "the violations and malfunctions observed during the elections, whether the regressive amendments that affected the electoral laws or the deletions and duplicate registrations during the exceptional revision of the electoral rolls or the massive use of money to buy votes".

It also denounced "the manipulation of the minutes, the non-delivery of some of them, the delivery of others outside the polling stations, the direct guidance of voters on the day of the vote, or the unjustified delay in the announcement of the winning candidates as well as the non-publication to date of the detailed results and the detailed distribution of the votes". According to the Islamists, these "forms of electoral corruption" have "resulted in the announcement of results that do not reflect the reality of the political map and the free will of the voters". They "constitute a setback in our democratic experience and the achievements that our country has accumulated in this field", they lamented.

The Lamp party collapsed at the ballot box in the last legislative elections, going from 125 seats in the outgoing Assembly to 13 out of a total of 395. Defeat confirmed after the local elections, held the same day. The party went from 5,021 elected officials to 777 in the municipal elections and from 174 seats to 18 in the regional elections against 174.