The Popular Movement ( ar, الحركة الشعبية; zgh, ⴰⵍⵃⴰⵔⴰⴽⴰ ⴰⵛⵛⴰⵄⴱⵉⵢⴰ; french: Mouvement populaire) is a

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and traditionalist rural-focused political party in

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. It is a member of

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. The party has a history of cooperating with two other parties with a liberal orientation, the

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and the Constitutional Union, since 1993.

History

The Popular Movement was founded in 1957 by the Berber tribal chief

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 ...

with help from

Abdelkrim al-Khatib Abdelkrim Al Khatib (2 March 1921 – 28 September 2008) was a Moroccan surgeon, politician and activist. He co-founded the Popular Movement (Morocco), National Popular Movement which would later split and was eventually re-branded as the Justice a ...

who founded later a splinter party (''Mouvement populaire démocratique et constitutionnel'') that became the Justice and Development Party. It was initially a rural party with conservative and tribal orientation, that unconditionally supported the monarchy and aimed at countering nationalist

Istiqlal Party The Istiqlal Party ( ar, حزب الإستقلال, translit=Ḥizb Al-Istiqlāl, lit=Independence Party; french: Parti Istiqlal; zgh, ⴰⴽⴰⴱⴰⵔ ⵏ ⵍⵉⵙⵜⵉⵇⵍⴰⵍ) is a political party in Morocco. It is a conservative and ...

. Although the party has been dominated by Berber speakers, it has not developed a distinct Berber agenda. 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 The National Popular Movement (french: Mouvement National Populaire) was a political party in Morocco. History and profile The party was founded in 1991, as a split of the Popular Movement, under veteran Berber politician and former defense min ...

(''Mouvement National Populaire'') and the Democratic Union (Union démocratique). The party is a full member of

, which it joined at the latter's Dakar Congress in 2003. In the

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held on 27 September 2002, the party won 27 out of the total 325 seats. It improved its standing in the

held on 7 September 2007, winning 41 out of 325 seats. The party won 32 out of 325 seats in the

held in November 2011, being the sixth party in the parliament.

Electoral results

Moroccan Parliament

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History

Electoral results

Moroccan Parliament

References

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