Al-Badil al-Hadari Party

The Party of al-Badil al-Hadari (Party of the Civilizational Alternative) is a Democratic Muslim political party in Morocco.

In the parliamentary election, held on 7 September 2007, the party did not win any seats.

Structure

History

Founded in 2002, the party was not recognised by the Moroccan Interior Ministry until 2005. The founding principles: freedom, equality, equity and democracy. They are mobilized for the same conviction: "a real alternative to the crisis in our country is possible."

Party dissolution

Following the arrests of senior party leader following a terrorism investigation ("Belliraj network"), Prime Minister Abbas El Fassi announced on February 20, 2008 the party's dissolution.

Both the secretary general and the spokesman of the party have been detained from February 2008 to April 14, 2011.[1]

On April 18, 2012, Mustapha Moatassim introduced a request before Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane to lift the freeze of the party.[2]

According to the Rabat Court of Appeal, there is actually no proof to confirm the dissolution decision, no trace in the Official Bulletin, no minutes of the Administrative Court, both required according to the Law on political parties.[3]

References