Morocco: Liberal parties rout ruling Islamists in elections
10 September 2021 |
8:12 am
Preliminary results in Morocco show two liberal parties on course to win almost half the seats in parliament. The largest party until now, which claimed election fraud on polling day, saw its support collapse.
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