Constitutional Union
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الاتحاد الدستوري ⴰⵍⵉⵜⵜⵉⴰⴷ ⴰⴷⴷⵓⵙⵜⵓⵔⵉ Constitutional Union (UC) |
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| Party leader | Mohammed Sajid |
| founding | 1983 |
| Headquarters | Casablanca , Morocco |
| Alignment | Royalism , conservatism , economic liberalism |
| Colours) | orange |
| International connections |
Liberal Network Africa Liberal International |
| Website | possible.ma |
The Constitutional Union ( Arabic الاتحاد الدستوري, DMG al-Ittiḥād ad-dustūrī , Central Atlas Tamazight ⴰⵍⵉⵜⵜⵉⴰⴷ ⴰⴷⴷⵓⵙⵜⵓⵔⵉ Alittiad addusturi , French Union Constitutionelle (UC) ) is a political party in Morocco .
It is considered royalist - conservative and economically liberal , and belongs to the Liberal International .
history
It was founded in 1983 by the then Prime Minister Maati Bouabid at the end of his reign under King Hassan II . She subsequently won the parliamentary elections in Morocco in 1984 and the 1993 elections . The elections of 1997 they lost narrowly to the Socialist Union of Popular Forces (USFP) and went into opposition. Before the election, the founder Maati Bouabid died in 1996, the next two years were marked by a succession of interim party leaders.
In 1998 the party founding lawyer Abdellatif Semlali took over the party leadership until his death in 2001 and was replaced by founding member Mohamed Abied .
Before the next election in 2002, the Liberal Party of Morocco , French Parti marocain libéral (PML) split from the UC. The decline in support from the electorate was clearly reflected in the election result, which led to the loss of 34 seats in parliament - only 16 seats remained. Four years later, in 2006, there was another split with the Moroccan Union for Democracy , French Union marocaine pour la démocratie (UMD). Nevertheless, the party was able to slightly improve its election result in the 2007 election and win 27 seats in parliament.
With the two elections after the constitutional reform of 2011, the party had to cast votes or parliamentary seats again and still achieved 23 seats in 2011 (although the total number of seats had increased from 325 to 395 seats) and in 2016 only 19 seats.
In 2015, Mohamed Abied initiated his replacement from the party chairmanship at a turbulent party congress, whereupon Mohammed Sajid , previously mayor of Casablanca , was internally elected as the new chairman.
List of general secretaries (party leaders)
- Maati Bouabid (founder and party leader 1983-1996)
- Chair rotation (1996-1998)
- Abdellatif Samlali (1998-2001)
- Mohamed Abied (2001 - 2015)
- Mohammed Sajid (since 2015)
Election results
| Election results for the National Assembly in Parliament (1983 - 2016) | ||
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| year | Share of votes | Seats |
| 1984 | 27.12% |
83/306 |
| 1993 | 16.22% |
54/333 |
| 1997 | 15.38% |
50/325 |
| 2002 | 5.0% |
16/325 |
| 2007 | 7.3% |
27/325 |
| 2011 | 5.8% |
23/395 |
| 2016 | 4.7% |
19/395 |
Web links
- possible.ma - Official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ La Novelle Tribune
- ↑ Bladi.net, April 28, 2015
- ↑ "We have climbed the hill" - Interview with Mohamed Abied Maghress.com, April 11, 2008