Hespress Eng team reports on the latest from the legislative elections trail. Check frequently for updates and political commentary on parliamentary poll results that’ll assign who will govern the country for the next five years.
3:00 pm: The Interior Minister announced the National Rally of Independents led polls and scored 97 seats in parliament, followed by the Authenticity and Modernity Party with 82 votes and Istiqlal party with 78 seats.
2:24 pm:Al Haouz province saw the RNI in the lead, followed by the Istiqlal party, with PAM coming in third.
2:19 pm: Prelimenary results of the legislative elections in Essaouira placed the Socialist Union Party on top, followed by the National Rally of Independents and Istiqlal Party.
1:59 pm: The National Rally of Independents succeeded in leading the results of the legislative elections in the Rabat Challah district, with a total of 10,823 votes. The Authenticity and Modernity Party followed with a total of 7,605 votes.
1:48pm: RNI lead the preliminary results of the Tangiers-Assila district with 17,000 votes in the legislative elections, followed by the liberal conservative Constitutional Union with a little less than 17,000 votes, and Socialist Union of Popular Forces with 16,000 votes.
1:17 pm: The Socialist Union of Popular Forces scored, so far, 20 parlimentary seats, according to the prelimenary results.
12:46 pm: The RNI led the legislative elections in Meknes with 19,813 votes, according to the preliminary results, followed by the Istiqlal Party with 19,760 votes. The Popular Movement Party ranked third with 10,478 votes.
12:35 pm: The Justice and Development Party said heads of polls refused to hand copies of voting records to candidates’ representatives in several districts, claiming these acts intend to obstruct the transparency of the electoral process.
12:30 pm: Preliminary results of the Tangiers-Assila district indicate RNI leading the legislative elections, followed by the liberal conservative Constitutional Union, and PAM.
12:15 pm: The socialist Party won 9 nine seats in the House of Representatives, in cities including Larache, Tangiers and Chefchaouen.
12:02 pm: PAM secretary general Abdellatif Ouahbi scores a parliamentary seat in Taroudant, according to party sources.
11:56pm: A source from the Authenticity and Modernity Party confirmed that its candidate, Mehdi Bensaid won the seat allocated for Rabat’s popular discrit Ocean, beating PDJ’s general secretary Saad Eddine El Othamni, who ran for the same district.
11:00 pm: The Authenticity and Modernity Party lead the turnout of votes in Morcco’s easter province Oujda with 15,485 votes, followed by the National Rally of Independents, at 13,252 votes. The Istiqlal Party ranked third with a total of 3,728. votes, according prelimentary results.
9:45 pm: The Ministry of Interior says rates of participation reached 50.18% at the national level by the time polls closed at 7 pm.
9:30 pm: The National Rally of Independents claimed in a press conference, scoring a victory in Agadir, Aziz Akhannouch’s stronghold with a 46% turnout.
9:15 pm: The executive Committee of the center-right Istiqlal party claims a major victory in the Southern provinces. One of its members, who did not want to be named, told Hespress a candidate in Meknes had already secured a seat in Parliament.
7:00 pm: Polls closed after citizens, out of the 18 million of those registered in electoral lists casted their ballots for the 395 MPs running for parliamentary seats.
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