The National Popular Movement (french: Mouvement National Populaire) was a

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Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...

History and profile

The party was founded in 1991, as a split of the Popular Movement, under veteran

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politician and former defense minister

Mahjoubi Aherdane Mahjoubi Aherdane (born 1921/1924 in Oulmes and died on November 15, 2020) was a Moroccan politician, Amazigh nationalist, poet and painter. Alongside Abdelkrim al-Khatib, he founded the Popular Movement in 1957, a political party defending the ...

, and is known to have a very strong Berber element. At the

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on 27 September 2002, the party won 18 out of 325 seats. The party was dissolved and merged back into the Popular Movement in 2006.

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