Morocco: PJD collapses, RNI wins — Islamists fall from 125 seats to 13

After a decade in government, the Justice and Development Party (PJD) lost more than 90% of its parliamentary seats in a single election. The National Rally of Independents (RNI), led by billionaire Aziz Akhannouch, won the most seats and formed the next government. The collapse was widely read as voters punishing the PJD for accepting normalization with Israel earlier that year — a deal King Mohammed VI signed in exchange for US recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara.

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Gara, T. (2026). Morocco: PJD collapses, RNI wins — Islamists fall from 125 seats to 13 [Event record]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/8feee2fd-3dfc-4dcd-96d6-76e0d1eb1817

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Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Morocco: PJD collapses, RNI wins — Islamists fall from 125 seats to 13." Event record, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/8feee2fd-3dfc-4dcd-96d6-76e0d1eb1817.

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@misc{tayyar-event-8feee2fd-3dfc-4dcd-96d6-76e0d1eb1817,
  title     = {{Morocco: PJD collapses, RNI wins — Islamists fall from 125 seats to 13}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Event record},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/8feee2fd-3dfc-4dcd-96d6-76e0d1eb1817},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  note      = {Event date: 2021-09-08. 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 June 21, 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@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,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 = {2026-06-21},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

Event date: 2021-09-08. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.