The Wall Street Journal
* AFRICA NEWS
BY MATT BRADLEY
A victory by the Justice and Development Party in Morocco’s first parliamentary elections since Arab Spring-inspired constitutional changes looked set to make Morocco the second Arab country this year to bring a moderate Islamist party into power.
The party, known as the PJD, won 107 seats in Morocco’s 395-seat parliament, more than twice the number of seats they hold in the current assembly. If the PJD can form a coalition, an Islamist now appears certain to become Morocco’s prime minister for the first time in history, thanks to a set of democratic-leaning constitutional changes passed last summer. The PJD’s imminent …
