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General elections were held in Morocco on 8 September 2021 to elect 395 members of the House of Representatives.The National Rally of Independents led by Aziz Akhannouch won the most seats (102), a gain of 65 seats from the prior election.
Elections in Morocco are held on a national level for the legislature. Parliament has two chambers . The Assembly of Representatives of Morocco ( Majlis AL-Nuwab/Assemblée des Répresentants ) has 325 members elected for a five-year term, 295 elected in multi-seat constituencies and 30 in national lists consisting only of women.
Early general elections were held in Morocco on 25 November 2011, brought forward from 2012 and then postponed from 7 October 2011.. Public protests as part of the Arab Spring in February 2011 led King Mohammed VI to announce an early election, a process of constitutional reform granting new civil rights, and the relinquishing of some of his administrative powers.
A decade after Arab Spring protests led King Mohammed VI to give more powers to the elected parliament and the government it helps form, he has brought most major decisions back within the palace ...
Following the March 1998 elections, a coalition government headed by opposition socialist Abderrahmane Youssoufi and composed largely of ministers drawn from opposition parties, was formed. Prime Minister Youssoufi's government is the first government drawn primarily from opposition parties in decades, and also represents the first opportunity ...
The ruling Justice and Development Party lost 112 seats overall as a result of the election, winning just 13 seats. [11] [12] On 24 January 2023, the House of Representatives approved a bill that would set a level of “adequate knowledge” of Tamazight as a condition for obtaining Moroccan citizenship. [13] [14]
The elections were announced by the Moroccan government in late January 2016. [2] They were the second elections after the constitutional reforms introduced in 2011 by King Mohammed VI in response to the Arab Spring. [2] Despite the reforms, most executive powers still lie with the king. [3] [4]
Women won 35 seats in the legislature, [3] a big increase from the two who had been elected in the 1997 election. [7] Following the election King Mohammed VI appointed the interior minister Driss Jettou as prime minister [8] and a new government was formed with roughly the same political parties supporting the coalition as before the election. [9]