Party of Progress and Socialism

The Party of Progress and Socialism ( mazirisch ⴰ ⴽ ⴰ ⴱ ⴰ ⵔ ⵏ ⵓ ⴼ ⴰ ⵔ ⴰ ⴷ ⵜ ⵏ ​​ⵎ ⵍ ⴰ, Arabic حزب التقدم والاشتراكية, French Parti du progrès et du Socialisme, PPS ), formerly Moroccan Communist Party, is a Moroccan political party of socialist ideology.

At meetings held on 27 September 2002 parliamentary elections, the Party of Progress and Socialism won 11 of 325 seats in the Moroccan parliament, the Assembly of Representatives. Since the parliamentary elections of September 7, 2007, the party holds 17 seats.

The party was in the government of Prime Minister Abbas El Fassi, formed on 15 October 2007, included.

The election symbol of the PPS is a book.

History

The Party of Progress and Socialism, approved in 1974, held its first national congress in 1975. Meanwhile, the party wrote in the continuity of the Moroccan socialist and workers' movement, which began since the mid-1940s for the independence of Morocco from Spain and France and the rise of a society of justice and equality. In the 1960s, she fought for a pluralistic, democratic and progressive Morocco. This association was conducted under the difficult conditions of colonialism and later in the sensitive context of the years of lead ( years 1956-1999 ), where the pluralism of ideas was not accepted and where the traditionalist and reactionary forces imposed a state of emergency and the rule of law, institutions and the freedoms rejected.

Secretariat

• Ali Yata, founder.
• Moulay Ismail Alaoui, ( September 1997 - 31 May 2010).
• Mohamed Nabil Benabdallah, (31 May 2010 - present ).