National Democratic Party (Morocco)

The party was founded by Mohamed Arsalane El Jadidi{{Cite web |title=Mohamed Arsalane El Jadidi : Du syndicaliste de l’UMT au co-fondateur du RNI et du PND |url=https://eljadidascoop.com/?p=18760 |date=2019-03-11 |access-date=2025-06-03}} in 1981 as a split from the National Rally of Independents.{{cite web|title=Moroccan Political Parties|url=http://www.riadreviews.com/resources/moroccan-politics-and-government/moroccan-political-parties.html|work=Riad Reviews|accessdate=10 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141016123410/http://www.riadreviews.com/resources/moroccan-politics-and-government/moroccan-political-parties.html|archive-date=16 October 2014|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Organizations|url=http://www.maroc.ma/en/content/organisations|publisher=Maroc|accessdate=10 October 2014}}

At the last legislative elections, 27 September 2002, the party won 12 out of 325 seats. In the parliamentary election, held on 7 September 2007, the party won 14 out of 325 seats together with the Al Ahd with which it formed an alliance, called the Covenant Party.

It decided to merge into the Authenticity and Modernity Party in 2008; however, it later decided against this move.{{cite book|author1=Bruce Maddy-Weitzman|author2=Daniel Zisenwine|title=Contemporary Morocco: State, Politics and Society Under Mohammmed VI|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WMsTiP8rTsUC&pg=PA20|accessdate=10 October 2014|year=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-69546-6|page=20}}

• Mohamed Arsalane El Jadidi: former parliament member and minister of employment.

After the recreation of the party in 2009 by Abdellah Kadiri under the name "Democratic National Party":

• Abdellah Kadiri (until his death on 24 September 2019).{{cite web |url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2118.html |title=CIA – The World Factbook -- Field Listing – Political parties and leaders |publisher=Central Intelligence Agency |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070613004433/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2118.html |archive-date=2007-06-13}}{{Cite web |title=رغم محاولة الشناوي اليائسة..موسى السعدي أمينا عاما شرعيا للديمقراطي الوطني |url=https://aabbir.com/%D8%B1%D8%BA%D9%85-%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B3%D8%A9-%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B9%D8%AF/ |date=2020-01-10 |access-date=2025-06-03}}
• Moussa Saadi (from January 2020 until his death on 30 May 2025{{cite web|access-date=2025-06-03 |date=2025-05-31 |title=الحزب الديمقراطي الوطني ينعي وفاة موسى السعدي الوزير السابق ورئيس مجلس رئاسته |url=https://fesnews.net/517180/2025/05/31/}}): former minister of energy and tourism{{cite web|archivedate=2025-04-16 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20250416203925/http://archives.cnd.hcp.ma/uploads/news/019116.pdf |title=Le Maroc en 1978 |url=http://archives.cnd.hcp.ma/uploads/news/019116.pdf}}

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