Morocco—Ruling Coalition Party Suffers Major Electoral Losses

Morocco’s Justice and Development Party (PJD) has lost nearly all its seats in Parliament, reports Al Jazeera (Qatar). The PJD won just 12 seats in the 395-member body in Wednesday’s elections, according to provisional results announced by the government on Thursday, down from the 125 it won during the last election in 2016. The PJD, a moderate Islamist party, was in a coalition with the liberal National Rally of Independents (NRI) party. It was also part of the ruling coalition...