House of Councillors (Morocco)

The House of Councillors (Arabic: مجلس المستشارين, Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⴰⵙⵇⵇⵉⵎ ⵏ ⵉⵏⵙⴼⴰⵡⵏ, romanized: Asqqim n Insfawn) is the upper house of the Parliament of Morocco and has 120 members, elected for a six-year term:

• 72 members are elected at the Kingdom's regional level - they represent the regions and the subnational administrative areas (French: collectivités territoriales)
• 20 members are elected in the regions by a single electoral college made up of all those in the relevant region that have been elected to the following professional associations:
  • the agriculture associations
  • the commerce, industry and services associations
  • the arts-and-crafts associations
  • the marine-fisheries associations
• 8 members are elected nationally by an electoral college made up of those elected from the most representative employers' professional organizations
• 20 members are elected nationally by an electoral college made up of employees.

The 2011 Constitution of Morocco retained this second chamber, but reduced its term of office from 9 to 6 years and its size to 120 seats.