Political party in Morocco
TheConstitutional Union (Arabic :الاتحاد الدستوري ,romanized : al-ittiḥād ad-dustūri ;Standard Moroccan Tamazight :ⴰⵍⵉⵜⵜⵉⴰⴷ ⴰⴷⴷⵓⵔⵜⵓⵔⵉ ,romanized: alittiad addusturi ;French :Union constitutionelle ,UC ) is apolitical party inMorocco aligned with the rulingmonarchy . The party has a history ofcooperating with two other parties with a liberal orientation, theNational Rally of Independents and thePopular Movement , since 1993.
The grouping was founded by then Prime MinisterMaati Bouabid in 1983[ 10] [ 11] and favoured by KingHassan II . In the1984 parliamentary election , it won the greatest number of seats, but remained far from an absolute majority. Later it became an ordinary party without a special role in Morocco's multi-party system.[ 12]
The party is a full member ofLiberal International , which it joined at the latter's Dakar Congress in 2003.[ 13] Itselectoral symbol is a horse.[ 14]
In theparliamentary election held on 27 September 2002, the party won 16 out of 325 seats. In the nextparliamentary election , held on 7 September 2007, the party won 27 out of 325 seats.[ 15] The party won 23 out of 325 seats in theparliamentary election held in November 2011, being the seventh party in the parliament.[ 15]
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Member parties of international liberal organisations
Andorra:LA Belgium:MR ,VLD Bosnia and Herzegovina:LDS * Botswana:BMD * Bulgaria:DPS ,NDSV Burkina Faso:ADF-RDA * Burma:NLD-LA * Burundi:ADR Cambodia:PSR Canada:Liberal Party Colombia:U * DR Congo:ANADER ,ARC *,URC * Costa Rica:PML Côte d'Ivoire:RDR Croatia:HSLS Cuba:PLC ,PSD ,ULC Denmark:RV ,Venstre Egypt:FEP ,Ghad * Equatorial Guinea:UDENA Estonia:RE Ethiopia:EDP * Finland:Keskusta ,SFP Georgia:RPG * Germany:FDP Gibraltar:Liberal Party Guatemala:MR *,PP Guinea:UFDG *,UFR * Honduras:PLH Hungary:MLP Iceland:FSF Indonesia:PD * Ireland:FF * Israel:Yesh Atid Italy:Rad ,FdL * Kenya:LDP * Kosovo:PLK * Latvia:LPP/LC Lebanon:Future Movement * Lithuania:LCU Luxembourg:DP Madagascar:MFM * Malawi:UDF Malaysia:Gerakan * Mali:PCR * Mexico:NA * Moldova:PRL * Mongolia:IZN Montenegro:LSCG Morocco:AdL *,UC ,MP Mozambique:PPDD * Netherlands:D66 ,VVD Nicaragua:PLI * North Macedonia:LDP Norway:Venstre Paraguay:PLRA Philippines:LP Romania:PNL Russia:Yabloko Senegal:PDS Serbia:LDP Seychelles:SNP * Slovakia:ANO Slovenia:LDS South Africa:DA Spain:CDC Sri Lanka:LP Sweden:C ,L Switzerland:FDP.The Liberals Taiwan:DPP Tanzania:CCW/CUF Thailand:DP Ukraine:UM * United Kingdom:APNI ,Lib Dems Zambia:UNDP * National groups:
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Cambodia:PSR Hong Kong:DP (represented through two individual members) Indonesia:PDI-P ,PKB ** Japan:DPJ ** Malaysia:PGRM Mongolia:IZN Myanmar:NCUB Pakistan:LFP * Philippines:LP Singapore:SDP Sri Lanka:LP ROC Taiwan:DPP Thailand:DP *associate member **observer