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Justice and Development Party

حزب العدالة والتنمية

Moderate Islamist party that led Moroccan governments 2011–2021; reduced to opposition in the 2021 elections.

Family
islamist sunni electoral
Standing
Opposition (major)
Review
Verified
Founded
1998
Current leader
Abdelilah Benkirane
Founders
Abdelilah Benkirane; Abdelkrim Khatib (predecessor MPDC)

Position

No position assigned yet for this party.

Briefs about Justice and Development Party

Comparative political-science briefs pairing this party with others. 2 briefs on file.

Members & affiliated figures

Politicians currently identified with this party — leaders, ministers, MPs, and other active figures. All affiliated politicians →

Declared vs. behavioral

For the axes below, this party's declared position (what the party says in its platform / official rhetoric) diverges from its behavioral position (its record of votes, coalition choices, or public actions). The spread itself is the methodological point — capturing the gap that a single composite score collapses.

Lens spreads are currently hand-coded on a curated set of cases where the gap is well-documented. Document-grounded scoring against the party's own platform documents (declared) and its voting / coalition record (behavioral) will scale this across the dataset. See methodology for the full lens-system roadmap.

Source documents

Texts the scoring pipeline reads — manifestos, speeches, platforms. Each document's verbatim content backs the position score above; the model cites specific phrases from these texts when scoring. All documents →

Sources

Per-field citations for the verified claims above. Other fields (notably the compass scores) remain hand-coded priors and are marked unverified until they pass the methodology pipeline — see methodology.

  • founded_year en.wikipedia.org 2026-06-06 Renamed from Constitutional and Democratic Popular Movement in 1998
  • government_role en.wikipedia.org 2026-06-06 Catastrophic loss in 2021: 13 seats from 125; out of government

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default 
Gara, T. (2026). Justice and Development Party [Party profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/pjd
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals 
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Justice and Development Party." Party profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/pjd.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers 
@misc{tayyar-pjd,
  title     = {{Justice and Development Party}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Party profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/pjd},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint 
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint 
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-06-21},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.