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National Union of Popular Forces

The left wing that split from Istiqlal in 1959; it led the opposition in the 1960s, and its main wing became the USFP in 1975.

The left wing that split from Istiqlal in 1959; it led the opposition in the 1960s, and its main wing became the USFP in 1975.

The National Union of Popular Forces was founded in 1959 when Istiqlal's left wing broke away under Mehdi Ben Barka and Abdallah Ibrahim, who was then heading the Government (1958–1960) .

It won 28 seats in the 1963 election and then endured years of repression; Mehdi Ben Barka was abducted in Paris in 1965 . It boycotted the 1970 election and split in the early 1970s: in 1975 the Rabat wing became the Socialist Union of Popular Forces , while another wing continued with a marginal role.

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