Istiqlal Party

Istiqlal Party

حزب الاستقلال
Parti Istiqlal
ⴰⴽⴰⴱⴰⵔ ⵏ ⵍⵉⵙⵜⵉⵇⵍⴰⵍ
Istiqlal Party حزب الاستقلال ; Parti Istiqlal ; ⴰⴽⴰⴱⴰⵔ ⵏ ⵍⵉⵙⵜⵉⵇⵍⴰⵍ
General Secretary	Nizar Baraka
Founder	Ahmed Balafrej
Founded	April 1937
Headquarters	4, rue Ibn Toumert, Rabat
Newspaper	Al-Alam (Arab); L'Opinion (French)
Ideology	Conservatism; Arab nationalism
Political position	Centre-right
Regional affiliation	Democrat Union of Africa
European affiliation	European People’s Party (regional partner)
International affiliation	International Democrat Union; Centrist Democrat International
House of Representatives	81 / 395
House of Councillors	24 / 120
Website
	www.istiqlal.info
	Politics of Morocco; Political parties; Elections;

The Istiqlal Party (Arabic: حزب الإستقلال, romanized: Ḥizb Al-Istiqlāl, lit. 'Independence Party'; French: Parti Istiqlal; Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⴰⴽⴰⴱⴰⵔ ⵏ ⵍⵉⵙⵜⵉⵇⵍⴰⵍ) is a political party in Morocco. It is a conservative and monarchist party and a member of the Centrist Democrat International and International Democrat Union. Istiqlal headed a coalition government under Abbas El Fassi from 19 September 2007 to 29 November 2011. From 2013 to 2021, it was part of the opposition. Since 2021 it is part of a coalition government led by Aziz Akhannouch.

The party emerged in the year 1937 during the anti-colonial struggle against French and Spanish imperial rule,^[6]^[7]^[8] making it the oldest active political party in Morocco.^[9]

^ Ring, Trudy; Watson, Noelle; Schellinger, Paul (2014). Middle East and Africa: International Dictionary of Historic Places. Routledge. p. 607. ISBN 9781134259861.
^ Alami, Aida; Casey, Nicholas (9 September 2021). "Islamists See Big Losses in Moroccan Parliamentary Elections". The New York Times.
^ Hefner, Robert W.; Hutchinson, John; Mels, Sara; Timmerman, Christiane (23 October 2013). Religions in Movement: The Local and the Global in Contemporary Faith Traditions. Routledge. p. 121. ISBN 978-1-136-68100-4.
^ Daadaoui, Mohamed (May 2010). "Party Politics and Elections in Morocco" (PDF). Policy Brief (29). Middle East Institute. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
^ Errazzouki, Samia (12 May 2013). "The Facade of Political Crises in Morocco". Jadaliyya. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
^ Lawrence, Adria K. (2017). "Repression and Activism among the Arab Spring's First Movers: Evidence from Morocco's February 20th Movement". British Journal of Political Science. 47 (3): 699–718. doi:10.1017/S0007123415000733. ISSN 0007-1234.
^ Lawrence, Adria (2013), "Nationalist Mobilization in Colonial Morocco", Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism: Anti-Colonial Protest in the French Empire, Cambridge University Press, pp. 166–213, ISBN 978-1-107-03709-0
^ Joffé, E. G. H. (1985). "The Moroccan Nationalist Movement: Istiqlal, the Sultan, and the Country*". The Journal of African History. 26 (4): 289–307. doi:10.1017/S0021853700028759. ISSN 1469-5138. S2CID 154810750.
^ "Morocco's Istiqlal party elects new leader". France 24. 8 October 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2023.

[found-1] Ring, Trudy; Watson, Noelle; Schellinger, Paul (2014). Middle East and Africa: International Dictionary of Historic Places. Routledge. p. 607. ISBN 9781134259861.

[2] Alami, Aida; Casey, Nicholas (9 September 2021). "Islamists See Big Losses in Moroccan Parliamentary Elections". The New York Times.

[Routledge-3] Hefner, Robert W.; Hutchinson, John; Mels, Sara; Timmerman, Christiane (23 October 2013). Religions in Movement: The Local and the Global in Contemporary Faith Traditions. Routledge. p. 121. ISBN 978-1-136-68100-4.

[4] Daadaoui, Mohamed (May 2010). "Party Politics and Elections in Morocco" (PDF). Policy Brief (29). Middle East Institute. Retrieved 29 September 2021.

[5] Errazzouki, Samia (12 May 2013). "The Facade of Political Crises in Morocco". Jadaliyya. Retrieved 29 September 2021.

[6] Lawrence, Adria K. (2017). "Repression and Activism among the Arab Spring's First Movers: Evidence from Morocco's February 20th Movement". British Journal of Political Science. 47 (3): 699–718. doi:10.1017/S0007123415000733. ISSN 0007-1234.

[7] Lawrence, Adria (2013), "Nationalist Mobilization in Colonial Morocco", Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism: Anti-Colonial Protest in the French Empire, Cambridge University Press, pp. 166–213, ISBN 978-1-107-03709-0

[8] Joffé, E. G. H. (1985). "The Moroccan Nationalist Movement: Istiqlal, the Sultan, and the Country*". The Journal of African History. 26 (4): 289–307. doi:10.1017/S0021853700028759. ISSN 1469-5138. S2CID 154810750.

[9] "Morocco's Istiqlal party elects new leader". France 24. 8 October 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2023.

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