The Liberal Moroccan Party (french: Parti Marocain Libéral) is a

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or p ...

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 t ...

History and profile

The party was established in March 2002 as a splinter from the Constitutional Union Party by the attorney

Mohammed Ziane Mohammed Ziane ( ar, محمد زيان, born 14 February 1943) is a Moroccan lawyer and politician who is currently imprisoned in the El Arjat Penitentiary in Salé. He was the Bâtonnier of the Moroccan Bar Association, an MP for the Constituti ...

, former delegate Minister for Human Rights in the

Abdellatif Filali Abdellatif Filali ( ar, عبد اللطيف الفيلالي; 26 January 1928 – 20 March 2009) was a Moroccan politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Morocco from 25 May 1994 to 4 February 1998. He was the 11th prime minister o ...

government, 1994–1998. In the

parliamentary election A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ...

held on 27 September 2002, the party won 3 out of 325 seats. In the next

, held on 7 September 2007, the party did not win any seats.

References

2002 establishments in Morocco Liberal parties in Morocco Political parties established in 2002 Political parties in Morocco {{Morocco-party-stub