Morocco analysis and explainers

Morocco analysis and explainers — sourced data and update dates on zexet.dev.

• The 2026 election: five takeaways

  PAM on top, the Head of Government’s party punished, the Islamists back, record abstention: what the 23 September figures say.

• Turnout from 85% to 38%

  Reading six decades of turnout in legislative elections.

• How is the head of government appointed?

  From the announcement of results to the confidence vote in the House: the constitutional steps of government formation, and the lessons of the 2016 "blockage".

• PJD: rise, collapse and return

  From 107 seats to 125, then 13, then 54: making sense of the most volatile electoral path in Moroccan history.

• The families of Moroccan parties

  The national movement, the left, the liberal centre, the rural-popular current and the Islamist current: where do the parties in the 2026 parliament come from?

• How votes become seats

  Local and regional districts, proportional lists and a quotient based on registered voters: a simple guide to how the House is elected.

• Six decades of legislative elections

  Twelve elections, three constitutions and deep changes in who wins and who governs.

• The 1998 Alternance government

  How Abderrahmane Youssoufi went from exile and opposition to heading the Government, and why it was a turning point.