Morocco: Benkirane Entrusted to Form New Cabinet

King Mohammed VI tasked on Monday outgoing Head of Government and Secretary General of the Justice and Development Party (JDP) Abdelilah Benkirane to form a new cabinet after the moderate Islamist party won the Friday legislative elections. The JDP came Read more

Morocco : Legislative Polls Unveil Bi-Polar Political Landscape

The legislatives elections held on Friday October 7 in Morocco have unveiled a dramatic change in the country’s political landscape with the emergence of two ideologically different poles: a moderate Islamist, conservative trend embodied by the incumbent Justice and Development Read more

Morocco-Elections: Islamist PJD First, Modernist PAM Second, According to Preliminary Results

Morocco’s moderate Islamists of “Justice and Development Party (PJD) have won 99 out of the 395 seats of the House of Representatives, according to official preliminary results. With 90 pc of the votes counted, the ruling party of head of Read more