Front for the Defence of Constitutional Institutions
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Front for the Defence of Constitutional Institutions الاتحاد الدستوري Front pour la défense des institutions constitutionnelles | |
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Leader | Ahmed Bahnini |
Founder | |
Founded | March 21, 1963 |
Dissolved | 1970 |
Merged into | Popular Movement |
Headquarters | Rabat |
Ideology | Royalism Liberalism |
Political position | Centre |
The Front for the Defence of Constitutional Institutions (Arabic: جبهة الدفاع عن المؤسسات الدستورية, French: Front pour la défense des institutions constitutionnelles, or simply FDIC) was a Moroccan political party founded in 1963 by , friend and advisor of King Hassan II.
History[]
The FDIC was created some months after the declaration of the Constitution of Morocco. A strong royalist, founded the FDIC for hinder the hegemony of the two strong parties: the conservative Istiqlal Party and the socialist National Union of Popular Forces.
The FDIC won the 1963 elections, and his candidate Ahmed Bahnini became Prime Minister in a FDIC-Istiqlal alliance, that ruled the Morocco for two years, and was succeeded, ironically for a royalist party, by the King Hassan II's govern. Only in 1967, the party established another government under Mohamed Benhima, that collapsed in 1969.
However, as a centrist party with a weak structuration, the FDIC was dissolved around 1970, merged in the Popular Movement.
Electoral results[]
Moroccan Parliament[]
House of Representatives | ||||||
Election year | # of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
# of overall seats won |
+/– | Leader | |
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1963 | 1,159,932 (#1) | 34.8 | 69 / 144
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References[]
- Political parties established in 1963
- Monarchist parties
- Liberal parties in Morocco
- 1963 establishments in Morocco