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﻿ IPU PARLINE database: MOROCCO (Majliss-annouwab), Full text
Affiliation date(s) 1964 - 1965
President Habib El Malki (M)
Notes Elected on 16 Jan. 2017.
Secretary General Najib El Khadi (M)
Members (statutory / current number) 395 / 395 PERCENTAGE OF WOMEN
Women (current number) 81 (20.51%)
Last renewal dates 7 October 2016
Address Chambre des Représentants
Phone (212 537) 76 09 60
Fax (212 537) 76 77 26 (Cabinet du Président / Office of the President)
(212 537) 76 03 90 (Secrétaire général / Secretary General)
E-mail parlement@parlement.ma
Last amendment: Organic law No. 7-11, 29 Sep't. 2011
Constituencies - 92 multi-member constituencies (for 305 seats)
- One nationwide constituency for 90 seats: 60 reserved for women and 30 reserved for young people under 40 years.
Voting system Proportional: Closed party-list system applying the rule of the highest average without vote-splitting or preferential votes.
- A 6-per-cent threshold applies for the 305 seats filled through electoral districts
- A 3-per-cent threshold applies to 90 seats filled by a national list (60 reserved for women and 30 for young people under 40 years old).
Seats that fall vacant during the legislative term are filled through by-elections. In cases where a by-election is held to fill only one seat, a relative majority system in one round applies.
Candidacy requirements - candidatures must be submitted at least 14 days prior to polling day
Dates of election / renewal (from/to) 7 October 2016
Timing and scope of renewal As in the previous elections, no party won an outright majority in the 395-member House of Representatives. The Justice and Development Party (PJD), led by Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane, remained the largest party, winning 125 seats, up from 107. Its coalition partners in the outgoing legislature (see note) took a total of 128 seats. The PJD's main rival, the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM, liberal, founded by Mr. Fouad Ali El Himma, a former advisor to the King) more than doubled its seats to 102. During the election campaign, the major parties focused on economic and social reforms, the pension system and Islamism .
The PJD-led coalition government formed in January 2012 comprised the Istiqlal Party (PI), the Popular Movement (MP) and the Progress and Socialism Party (PPS). The National Rally of Independents (RNI) joined in October 2013, replacing the PI.
Number of candidates: 6,992
Number of parties in government: 6
Names of parties in government: Justice and Development Party (PJD), National Rally of Independents (RNI), Popular Movement (MP), Socialist Union of Popular Forces (USFP), Constitutional Union (UC), Progress and Socialism Party (PPS)
Round no 1 7 October 2016
Valid votes 15'702'592
Political Group Total of seats Constituency seats List seats
Percent of women 314
House of Representatives (26.10.2016, 30.05.2017)
Term - duration: 2 and a half years
Appointment - elected by all the Members of the House of Representatives
Eligibility - any Member who has formally announced his candidature is eligible
Procedures / results - the provisional Bureau chaired by the oldest Member and seconded by the four youngest Members presides over the House during the voting
- the youngest Members of the Bureau supervise the voting
- the provisional Chair announces the results without delay
Status - ranks third in the hierarchy of the State immediately after the Head of the Government
- is a member of the Consultative Council for Human Rights
- represents the Assembly in international bodies (IPU, AIPU, UAP)
- presides over the Board and the Conference of Speakers
Board - is set up and regulated by the Standing Orders
- consists of the Speaker (term of two and a half years), eight Deputy Speakers, two quaestors, and three parliamentary secretaries (term of two and a half years)
- meets once weekly at the Speaker's initiative
- examines the admissibility of requests for setting up committees and/or commissions of enquiry, proposes or decides on the setting-up of such committees
Special powers - supervises the establishment of the budget which is prepared by the quaestor's office
Nature of the mandate · Free representation (Art. 30 of the 2011 Constitution)
Validation of mandates · No validation, except in the event of challenge. In this case, the Constitutional Council rules on the regularity of the election (Art. 79 (1) of the Constitution).
End of the mandate · On the day when the legal term of the House ends - or on the day of early dissolution (Art. 3 (2) of the Organic Law on the Compostion of and Election to the House of Representatives; for dissolution, see Art. 70 and 71 (2) of the Constitution)
Can MPs resign? Yes · Authority competent to accept the resignation: the President of the House of Representatives
Can MPs lose their mandate ? Yes (a)	Revocation before expiry of mandate
· Basic salary: DH 30,000
(a) Secretariat for parliamentary groups
(b) Official housing
(c) Official car: allowance for Board members and Committee Chairpersons
(d) Security guards
(e) Postal and telephone services:
(f) Travel and transport: 50% reduction on tickets
Parliamentary immunity - parliamentary non-accountability · The concept exists (Art. 37 (1) of the Constitution).
· Parliamentary non-accountability applies to words spoken and written by MPs both within and outside Parliament as long as it falls within the exercise of their parliamentary mandate.
· Exceptions: opinions which call into question the monarchy or Islam or which constitute disrespect for the King
Parliamentary immunity - parliamentary inviolability · The concept exists (Art. 37 (2) and (3) of the Constitution).
· It covers all offences with the exception of opinions which call into question the monarchy or Islam or which constitute disrespect for the King, and protects MPs from arrest and from being held in preventive custody, from the opening of judicial proceedings against them and from their homes being searched.
- When Parliament is in session, an MP can be prosecuted or arrested for flagrante delicto crimes or offences.
- When Parliament is in recess, an MP can be arrested for cases involving flagrante delicto, authorized prosecution or final sentencing.
· Protection is provided from the start to the end of the mandate. It does not automatically cover judicial proceedings instituted against MPs before their election, but these may be suspended (Art. 37 (4) of the Constitution).
· Parliamentary immunity (inviolability) can be lifted (Art. 37 (2) and (3) of the Constitution):
- Competent authority: the House; the Bureau of the House (arrests during recesses)
· Parliament can suspend the prosecution and/or detention of one of its members (Art. 37 (4) of the Constitution):
- Procedure (Art. 37 (4) of the Constitution)
Training Following the elections of 25 November 2011, the Secretary General prepared a guide as well as a set of important documents constituting an MP's briefcase, which was distributed to all members of parliament at the start of the parliamentary term.
Furthermore, a training/induction session in parliamentary procedure and practice for MPs was organized by the parliamentary groups.
Participation in the work of the Parliament · Members of parliament must be present for the plenary sittings, committee sittings and at the inaugural session, which is presided over by His Majesty the King the second Friday in October each year.
· Sanctions are provided for cases of unjustified absence for plenary sittings and are set forth in the Standing Orders of the House of Representatives.