Popular Movement
Which party was Abdelkrim al-Khatib a member of from 1957 to 1967?
Abdelkrim al-Khatib Abdelkrim Al Khatib ( 2 March 1921 – 28 September 2008 ) was a Moroccan surgeon , politician and activist . He co-founded the National Popular Movement which would later split and was eventually re-branded as the Justice and Development Party . He became the first leader of Moroccos House of Representatives . Biography . Al Khatib was born on 2 March 1921 in El Jadida . His father , Omar Al Khatib , was an administrative interpreter of Algerian origin and his mother Meriem El Guebbas was Moroccan . He became the first surgeon in Morocco and was involved when the Popular Movement was started . He was a campaigner for independence and he became the first leader of Moroccos House of Representatives . He was also a Government minister several times . After the 1965 period of emergency when the Moroccan King took on the temporary management of Morocco , he founded the Justice and Development Party which emerged from the Popular Democratic Constitutional Movement in 1988 . These were Islamic parties that support the monarchy . It is said that this new party was based on the Turkish party of the same name . But thats not true because the party in Turkey was founded in 2001 . But it said that the Turkish Islamic politician Necmettin Erbakan was a big actor by founding the party . The party was successful in the 2002 election taking 42 out of the 325 seats . Al Khatib died in Rabat in 2008 . Family . El Khatib is the maternal uncle of Moroccan General Housni Benslimane whose sister is the mother of Ismail Alaoui the ex-president of the Party of Progress and Socialism . El Khatib is also the maternal uncle of Saad Hassar , former secretary of state in the Moroccan Interior Ministry