Popular Movement

Popular Movement
Popular Movement
الحركة الشعبية
Mouvement populaire
Leader Mohand Laenser
Founded 1957 (1957)
Headquarters Rabat, Morocco
Ideology Liberalism, Economic liberalism, Conservative liberalism
Political position Centre-right
International affiliation Liberal International
Seats in the Assembly of Representatives:
41 / 325
Website
www.alharaka.ma

The Popular Movement (Arabic: الحركة الشعبية‎) is a conservative liberal party in Morocco established in 1957 by the Berber Caid Mahjoubi Aherdane with help from Dr. Abdelkrim al-Khatib who founded later a splinter party (Mouvement populaire démocratique et constitutionnel) that became the Justice and Development Party.

The present party results from a 25 March 2006 merger between the main party which had kept the original name and two splinter parties, the National Popular Movement (Mouvement National Populaire, Alharaka alwatania ashaabia) and the Democratic Union (Union démocratique).[1][2]

The party is a full member of Liberal International, which it joined at the latter's Dakar Congress in 2003.[3]

In the parliamentary election held on 27 September 2002, the party won 27 out of 325 seats. It improved its standing in the parliamentary election held on 7 September 2007, winning 41 out of 325 seats.[4]

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