National Popular Movement
{{Short description|Political party in Morocco}}
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The National Popular Movement ({{langx|fr|Mouvement National Populaire}}) was a political party in Morocco.
History and profile
The party was founded in 1991, as a split of the Popular Movement, under veteran Berber politician and former defense minister Mahjoubi Aherdane, and is known to have a very strong Berber element.{{cite web |title=Morocco: Brief history of the Berbers including their origins and geographic location |url=https://www.refworld.org/docid/3df4be668.html#:~:text=The%20Berbers%20of%20Morocco%20are,Vandal%2C%20Byzantine%20and%20Arab%20rule. |website=refworld.org |publisher=Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |access-date=6 April 2022}}{{cite web|title=Organizations|url=http://www.maroc.ma/en/content/organisations|publisher=Maroc|accessdate=10 October 2014}}
At the legislative elections on 27 September 2002, the party won 18 out of 325 seats.
The party was dissolved and merged back into the Popular Movement in 2006.
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