King dismisses PJD's Benkirane after a five-month deadlock, names El Othmani

Though the PJD again won the 7 October 2016 election (125 seats), party leader and incumbent PM Abdelilah Benkirane spent five months unable to assemble a coalition (the "blocage"). On 17 March 2017 King Mohammed VI removed Benkirane and tasked another PJD figure, Saad Eddine El Othmani, with forming a government — a royal intervention widely read as constraining the elected Islamist party.

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Parties

Justice and Development Party

Politicians

Abdelilah Benkirane party-leader

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Gara, T. (2026). King dismisses PJD's Benkirane after a five-month deadlock, names El Othmani [Event record]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/8a26fbd6-6a64-43f2-8590-be3f07d90f38

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@misc{tayyar-event-8a26fbd6-6a64-43f2-8590-be3f07d90f38,
  title     = {{King dismisses PJD's Benkirane after a five-month deadlock, names El Othmani}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Event record},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/8a26fbd6-6a64-43f2-8590-be3f07d90f38},
  urldate   = {2026-07-27},
  note      = {Event date: 2017-03-17. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

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Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper

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@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-07-27},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

Event date: 2017-03-17. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.