Morocco Party leader
Abdelilah Benkirane
عبد الإله بنكيرانSecretary-General of the Justice and Development Party (PJD); Prime Minister of Morocco 2011-2017. Brotherhood-affiliated figure in the post-Arab-Spring political landscape.
- Country
- Morocco
- Role
- Party leader
Position
Abdelilah Benkirane sits with Justice and Development Party, which doesn't carry a single compass position, so an individual position is being scored from the 1 source document on file (below).
Source documents
Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →
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Interview Arabic 2014-10-27 Abdelilah Benkirane (PJD) — interview, “I have not come to change religious beliefs but to solve problems” (Asharq al-Awsat), 27 October 2014 (English translation of Arabic)
When I was appointed as prime minister by His Majesty King Mohammed VI of Morocco, I felt that I was an official responsible for running the public affairs of all Moroccans rather than a prophet with a special message.…
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). Abdelilah Benkirane [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/abdelilah-benkirane
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Abdelilah Benkirane." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/abdelilah-benkirane.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-abdelilah-benkirane,
title = {{Abdelilah Benkirane}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Politician profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/abdelilah-benkirane},
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.