Socialist Union of People's Forces

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الاتحاد الاشتراكي للقوات الشعبية
ⵜⴰⵎⵓⵏⵜ ⵜⴰⵏⵎⵍⴰⵢⵜ ⵏ ⵉⵖⴰⵍⵍⵏ ⵉⴳⴷⵓⴷⴰⵏⵏ
Socialist Union of People's Forces
Party leader Driss Lachgar
founding 1959 as UNFP
1975 as USFP
Headquarters Rabat , Morocco
Alignment Social democracy , democratic socialism ,
center-left
Colours) purple , white
Parliament seats 20 of 395 seats in the Assembly of Representatives (2016)
International connections Progressive Alliance

Socialist International

Website http://usfp.org.ma/fr/

The Socialist Union of People's Forces ( Arabic الاتحاد الاشتراكي للقوات الشعبية, DMG al-ittiḥād al-ištirākī li-l-quwwāt aš-šaʿbīya , Central Atlas Tamazight ⵜⴰⵎⵓⵏⵜ ⵜⴰⵏⵎⵍⴰⵢⵜ ⵏ ⵉⵖⴰⵍⵍⵏ ⵉⴳⴷⵓⴷⴰⵏⵏ Tamunt Tanmlayt n Iɣalli Igdudann , French Union Socialiste des Forces Populaires , USFP ) is a left of the center political party in Morocco .

The party is a full member of the Socialist International .

The party stands for left-wing politics that are mainly committed to social justice, modernity and the fight against inequality.

After the parliamentary elections in 2016 , the party became part of the government coalition of Prime Minister Saadeddine Othmani of the PJD in February 2017 after lengthy unsuccessful coalition negotiations .

history

The Socialist Union of People's Forces originally emerged as a split from the Rabat section of the National Union of People's Forces (UNFP) , a socialist opposition party that split off from the Istiqlal party in 1959 . While the UNFP subsequently refused to begin the democratization process and since then has boycotted all elections, the USFP has developed into a social democratic actor in the Moroccan party landscape , to which the Istiqlal also remained linked in an opposition alliance Al-Koutla .

The two party leaders Abderrahim Bouabid (USFP) and M'hamed Boucetta (Istiqlal) presented King Hassan II with a memorandum with political and constitutional demands in October 1991, which subsequently led to two amendments to the constitution in 1992 and 1996, as well to the parliamentary elections of 1997 , from which the USFP chairman Abderrahmane Youssoufi emerged in 1998 as prime minister of the first "government of change".

Recent developments

In the parliamentary elections held on September 27, 2002 , the Socialist Union of People's Forces won 50 of the 325 seats, making it the strongest party in the Moroccan Assembly of Representatives . Although King Mohammed V appointed the non-party Driss Jettou Prime Minister, USFP and Istiqlal continued to take part in a three-party coalition.

In the next parliamentary elections , the Socialist Union of People's Forces only won 38 of the 325 seats, thus losing 12 parliamentary seats and becoming the fifth largest party in parliament. The party was nevertheless included in the government of Prime Minister Abbas al-Fassi , formed on October 15, 2007.

In the run-up to the parliamentary elections in November 2011 , the Socialist Union of People's Forces sought to form a united front with the Party of Progress and Socialism (PPS) and the Front for Democratic Forces (FFD) to overcome the loss of support within the Moroccan left to reverse in recent years. The party won a slight vote in the election and gained 39 of the 395 seats, but, unlike the Istiqlal and the PPS, it does not take part in the first government of the new Prime Minister Abdelillah Benkirane of the Justice and Development Party (Morocco) (PJD).

After the parliamentary elections in 2016 , there was a government crisis as the renewed election winner Benkirane refused to integrate the USFP into a new government coalition, as the coalition partner RNI demanded. Only after the establishment of a new Prime Minister by King Mohammed VI. in February 2017, the USFP was admitted to the coalition, albeit after a severe loss of votes.

List of general secretaries (party leaders)

Election results

Election results for the National Assembly in Parliament (1959 - 2016)
year Share of votes Seats
1963 1 19.4%
28/144
1970 1 0.42%
1/240
1977 5.68%
15/264
1984 11.76%
36/306
1993 15.62%
52/333
1997 17.53%
57/325
won
2002 9.6%
50/325
won
2007 8.9%
38/325
2011 8.6%
39/395
2016 6.2%
20/395

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of Socialist International member parties .
  2. ↑ Telquel.ma, March 19, 2013
  3. ^ Moroccans favor conservative party instead of ushering in Islamic party . Associated Press ( International Herald Tribune ), September 9, 2007.
  4. ↑ Le roi nomme un nouveau gouvernement après des tractations difficiles . AFP (Jeuneafrique.com), October 15, 2007 (French).
  5. ↑ NORTH AFRICA REGION DAILY NEWS UPDATE . Aswat. October 24, 2011. Archived from the original on December 17, 2012. Retrieved October 30, 2011.
  6. ↑ LaPresse.ca of March 25, 2017