The National Popular Movement () was a

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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, 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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