Popular Movement (Morocco)

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The Popular Movement MP is a royalist and traditionalist rural-focused political party in Morocco. It is a member of Liberal International. The party has a history of cooperating with two other parties with a liberal orientation, the National Rally of Independents and the Constitutional Union, since 1993. The party experienced an internal conflict in the 1960s between its co-founder Abdelkrim al-Khatib and Mahjoubi Aherdane over the political response to King Hassan II's decision in 1965 to dissolve Parliament, which had been presided over by al-Khatib, and declare a state of emergency. In 1967, al-Khatib broke with the Popular Movement and established the Popular Democratic and Constitutional Movement, which later evolved into the Justice and Development Party (PJD). In October 1986, an extraordinary congress removed Aherdane from the leadership, and Mohand Laenser subsequently became Secretary General of the Popular Movement. Aherdane later founded the National Popular Movement in 1991...

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