RABAT, Morocco - Morocco's long-ruling Islamists have suffered a crushing defeat to liberal parties seen as close to the palace in parliamentary elections, according to provisional results announced early Thursday.
It was far behind its main liberal rivals, the National Rally of Independents and the Authenticity and Modernity Party , with 97 and 82, respectively, and the centre-right Istiqlal Party with 78 seats in the 395-seat assembly. And the main opposition PAM was founded by the current royal adviser, Fouad Ali El Himma, in 2008. The Istiqlal party is the oldest party in Morocco.
But this was the first time that Morocco's 18 million voters chose their deputies and municipal and regional representatives on the same day.
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