{"id":46361,"date":"2026-09-24T11:26:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T09:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=46361"},"modified":"2026-09-24T11:26:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T09:26:06","slug":"pam-party-wins-most-seats-in-moroccos-parliamentary-election","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/pam-party-wins-most-seats-in-moroccos-parliamentary-election\/","title":{"rendered":"PAM party wins most seats in Morocco&#8217;s parliamentary election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Authenticity and Modernity \u200bParty (PAM) won the largest number of seats in Morocco&#8217;s legislative election, followed by its partners in the \u200coutgoing government, National Rally of Independents (RNI), and the Istiqlal party, according to official preliminary results on Thursday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The close vote in Wednesday&#8217;s poll will shape the next coalition government which will oversee the final stages of a $20 billion push to prepare for the 2030 World Cup, and initiatives aimed at reducing inequalities and addressing youth discontent, highlighted by a \u200bmass border rush on the Spanish enclave of Ceuta and deadly Gen-Z-led protests last year.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Liberal-centrist PAM took 97 seats in \u200bthe 395-seat parliament, ahead of the RNI with 66, while the Istiqlal Party secured 65 seats, the Interior \u2060Minister Abdelouafi Laftit said in a news briefing on Thursday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Islamist Justice and Development Party rebounded to 54 seats, from only 13 in the \u200bprevious election, buoyed by the return of its former<span class=\"x_spanWithBackgroundColor\"> Prime Minister<\/span>\u00a0Abdelilah Benkirane.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":46362,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-46361","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Authenticity and Modernity \u200bParty ","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46363,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46361\/revisions\/46363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=46361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}