Islamists Were Routed in the Moroccan Parliamentary Elections

The Islamist party that has ruled Morocco for ten years since Morocco’s establishment as a constitutional monarchy after the Arab Spring has been routed in the Moroccan parliamentary elections, led by center-right, free enterprise and royalist parties. See my post from June of 2011, Morocco: First Fruits of the Arab Spring: https://williamcinfici.blogspot.com/2011/06/morocco-first-fruits-of-arab-spring.html. The Islamists finished in eighth place, losing many seats. Although they led the government, the King has strong influence over government in Morocco. Morocco had recognized Israel and is dealing with an insurgency in the former Spanish Western Sahara, which Morocco claims. The King gave a mandate to the leader of the economic party that won the largest number of seats to try to form a government, which should be easy to accomplish.