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Morocco election results: PAM takes 97 seats, Akhannouch's RNI loses grip

Morocco's Authenticity and Modernity Party won 97 of 395 seats in Wednesday's low-turnout parliamentary vote, interior minister Abdelouafi Laftit announced on Thursday, with the Islamist PJD rebounding to 54 seats.

By Sarah Whitfield · · 1 min read

Voters casting ballots at a polling station in Rabat during Morocco's parliamentary election
Photo: Afrikactus

Morocco’s Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) won the most seats in Wednesday’s parliamentary election, taking 97 of the 395 seats in the House of Representatives, according to provisional results announced on Thursday, 24 September, by interior minister Abdelouafi Laftit (Reuters, Al Arabiya).

PAM’s partners in the outgoing coalition followed: the National Rally of Independents (RNI) took 66 seats and Istiqlal 65, while the Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD) rebounded to 54 seats from just 13 in 2021, buoyed by the return of former prime minister Abdelilah Benkirane. The leftist USFP, PPS and FGD took 26, 19 and 8 seats respectively (Al Arabiya).

Turnout was 38.02%, down from 50% in 2021 and the lowest since 2007 — the first national vote since last year’s deadly Gen Z-led protests, and the ballot that will shape the government overseeing the final stages of a $20 billion push for the 2030 World Cup (Reuters).

Under the 2011 constitution, King Mohammed VI appoints the head of government from the largest party. A possible candidate is PAM’s Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri — if appointed, she would be the second woman to hold such a post in the Arab region, after Tunisia’s Najla Bouden (The National). Outgoing premier Aziz Akhannouch, who led the RNI coalition since 2021, is not standing again after stepping down as party leader (Reuters).

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