Popular Movement الحركة الشعبية Mouvement populaire | |
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| General Secretary | Mohamed Ouzzine |
| Founder | Abdelkrim al-Khatib and Mahjoubi Aherdane |
| Founded | 28 September 1957 |
| Headquarters | 66 rue Patrice Lumumba, Rabat |
| Ideology | Conservative liberalism[1] Monarchism[2] Agrarianism |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| Regional affiliation | Africa Liberal Network |
| International affiliation | Liberal International |
| House of Representatives | 28 / 395 |
| House of Councillors | 10 / 120 |
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The Popular Movement (Arabic: الحركة الشعبية; French: Mouvement populaire) 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.
- ^ Routledge Handbook on Political Parties in the Middle East and North Africa. Routledge. 2021. pp. 101–103. ISBN 9781000293302.
Regarding its ideology, the MP makes explicit references to the defence of individual and collective rights, but there are no nods to economic freedoms. Based on the MP's political discourse and action, its liberalism might be considered conservative.
- ^ Willis, Michael J. (2012), Politics and Power in the Maghreb: Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco from Independence to the Arab Spring, C. Hurst & Co., p. 125