Justice and Development Party
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Moroccan political party
Key facts
- Abbreviation
- JDP (English), PJD (French)
- General secretary
- Abdelilah Benkirane
- Founder
- Abdelkrim al-Khatib
- Founded
- 1967 ; 59 years ago ( 1967 )
- Split from
- Popular Movement
- Headquarters
- 4, rue El Yefrani Cité les Orangers, Rabat
- Newspaper
- Almisbah
- Ideology
- Islamic democracy Conservatism Social conservatism Moroccan nationalism Populism
- Political position
- Right-wing
- Religion
- Islam
- Colours
- Blue Orange
- House of representatives
- 13 / 395
- House of councillors
- 3 / 120
- Pan african parliament
- 1 / 5 (Morocco seats)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- political party
- Country
- Morocco
- Founded by
- Abdelkrim al-Khatib
- Headquarters
- Rabat
- Chairperson
- Abdelilah Benkirane
- Official website
- www.pjd.ma
- Political ideology
- Conservative democracy
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- topic's main category
- Category:Justice and Development Party (Morocco) politicians
- inception
- 1967-00-00
- Commons category
- Justice and Development Party (Morocco)
- sRGB color hex triplet
- 022E5F
- political alignment
- centre-right
- short name
- PJD
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Encyclopedic overview
Saadeddine Othmani Abdelilah Benkirane
The Justice and Development Party is a political party in Morocco that advocates for Islamic democracy. It was the ruling party of Morocco following the 2011 and 2016 general elections, when it led coalition governments. It suffered a huge defeat in the 2021 election, when it only won 13 seats, compared to 125 in the previous election.
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