Morocco’s larger political arc also features some positive components.
Unlike in Saudi Arabia, elections, parties, and Parliament are
significant. The Socialists recently served an entire term as Parliament’s
leading party. The current prime minister comes from the Party
for Justice and Development (PJD), a formation with Islamist roots
that emerged from the November 2011 election as Parliament’s largest
single party. It aspires to be known as a moderate Muslim ruling party
along the lines of groups that have claimed this identity in Turkey (the
Turkish Justice and Development Party) and Tunisia (Ennahda).