Justice and Development Party (Morocco)

The Party for Justice and Development (French Parti de la justice et du développement, PJD; mazirisch ⴰ ⴽ ⴰ ⴱ ⴰ ⵔ ⵏ ⵜ ⴰ ⵏ ⵣ ⵣ ⴰ ⵔ ⴼ ⵓ ⵜ ⴷ ⵜ ⴰ ⵏ ⴼ ⵍ ⵉ ⵜ, Arabic حزب العدالة والتنمية, DMG Hizb al - ʿ Adala wa -t - tanmiya ) is a political party in Morocco, the moderate Islamist positions represents.

The election symbol of the party is a lantern.

History

The party was founded in 1967 under the name Mouvement Populaire Démocratique et Constitutionnel ( MPCD ) of Abdelkrim Al Khatib, a physician of the then King Hassan II. It is represented in the Moroccan parliament since 1997, went to the renaming of the PJD in parliamentary elections in September 2002 with 42 seats out of 325 as the third- strongest force out and has since been the main opposition party. Secretary General is Benkirane since 2008 Abdelillah. In the parliamentary elections in September 2002, the party has a forecasted votes profit. It was the third force and had to concede defeat despite their votes for the USFP and Istiqlal of. After the 2007 parliamentary elections led the opposition to the largest opposition party. In the early parliamentary elections in 2011, she won as the strongest party 107 of 395 seats.

Positions

The PJD is considered Islamic -oriented and has partially Islamist trains to some observers. From other it is called a "post- Islamist". Since the bombings in Casablanca in 2003 it occurs increasingly moderate. In addition, the party maintains its own branch woman, but demonstrated in 2000 against a bill which provided for women equality. Statements by individual members of leadership on issues such as hadd punishments but have triggered much discussion in Morocco. After the bombings in Casablanca on 16 May 2003, the party came under increased public pressure. Although she clearly distanced himself from the assassins and all forms of violence, remained criticism about the fact that the party had propagated through their rhetoric an anti -Western attitude. Recently introduced the party to fight against corruption and for social justice in the foreground, so they called for more jobs and better housing.