Moroccan elections; Defeat of the ruling party against the liberal parties
According to IRNA, Al-Jazeera news website announced on Thursday that the ruling party of Morocco handed over the results of yesterday’s parliamentary elections to the liberal parties.
“The Liberal Party of the National Coalition of Independents” won the race in the Moroccan parliamentary elections with 97 seats, said Abd al-Wafi al-Fait, the Moroccan wizard.
He added that at the end of the vote count, the Originality and Progress Party had 82 seats, the Independence Party 78 seats, the Socialist Union 35 seats, the People’s Movement Party 26 seats, Progress and Socialism 20 seats, the Constitutional Union 18 seats and the Justice and Development Party (ruling party). They won 12 seats.
The Moroccan interior minister went on to say that the other parties in the country also won a total of 12 seats.
Laftit said turnout in both parliamentary and local council elections was 50.35 per cent, up from 42 per cent in the 2016 election.
The moderate Justice and Development Party, which formed a government following the Moroccan revolution and the so-called “Arab Spring” protests, won the 2011 and 2016 elections.
At the same time, the AKP, which some had predicted to win a large percentage of the vote in this election, announced at the same time as the ballot boxes were closed that violations and violations had taken place in different parts of the country.
As usual, King Mohammed VI of Morocco will meet with a member of the party with the highest percentage of votes to determine the prime minister after the final election results are announced.
The Moroccan House of Representatives has 395 seats, and according to the Interior Ministry, 6,815 people were nominated for these seats. They competed with each other.
More than 157,569 people ran for the Moroccan city council elections.
The King of Morocco has allocated 90 parliamentary seats to women, and another 305 seats have been allocated to the rest of the winning electoral lists, whether male or female.
After the end of voting by the Ministry of Interior, polling stations in closed and counting centers began.
Following the announcement of the final results of the Moroccan parliamentary elections, King Mohammed VI, in accordance with his powers set out in the text of the Moroccan constitution, nominated one of the party members who won the most seats at the suggestion of other members of the party as The Prime Minister will appoint.
However, the palace of Muhammad VI is still the main source of decisions and strategic direction for the 36-million-strong Moroccan country; A country that, after the UAE, Bahrain and Sudan, compromised with the occupying regime in Jerusalem by turning its back on the aspirations of the Palestinian people.
In the 2011 and 2016 elections, the Islamic Justice and Development Party won the most seats in the Moroccan parliament, and this party also hoped to win the most votes in this year’s elections for the third consecutive term as Prime Minister (Prime Minister). Slow down.
The Islamic Justice and Development Party of Morocco was formed following the 2011 protests in the Middle East and North Africa.
Justice and Development (125 seats), National Coalition of Independents (37 seats), Movement Movement (27 seats), Socialist Alliance (20 seats) and Constitutional Union (23 seats) They form the Maghreb.
The “Independence” and “Originality and Progress” parties are among the most important opposition parties to the current government in the Maghreb.
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