Parti écologiste marocain - Izigzawen (), is the new self-denomination of the
Berberist Moroccan Parti démocrate amazigh marocain (PDA) or Moroccan Amazigh Democrat Party, launched in 2005, banned in November 2007 and judicially dissolved in April 2008. It has no connection with the
Global Greens and has not been legally reestablished, even under its new denomination.
Legal status in Morocco
It was founded as ''Parti démocrate
amazigh
Berbers, or the Berber peoples, also known as Amazigh or Imazighen, are a diverse grouping of distinct ethnic groups indigenous to North Africa who predate the arrival of Arabs in the Maghreb. Their main connections are identified by their u ...
marocain'' in June 2005 by Omar Louzi, a long-time
Berberist activist, former member of the (Berber-based)
Popular Movement and cofounder of the
Amazigh World Congress. The party was dissolved by a Rabat administrative court decision on April 17, 2008, after having been banned by the Moroccan Interior Ministry on November 25, 2007 because its name infringes on the Moroccan law on political parties, which forbids parties explicitly bases on ethnicity or religion. It then tried to be legally reestablished under a new denomination, without success.
International status
The Izigzawen party has no connection with the
Global Greens, the international grouping of green parties, whose Moroccan member party is the Parti national des verts pour le développement - Les Verts. There are at least two other political parties in Morocco which claim an environmentalist, ecologist or green label: the Parti de l'environnement et du développement durable (successor to the
Environment and Development Party, merged into the
Authenticity and Modernity Party) and the Green Left (a splinter from the
United Socialist Party).
[ Taha Rabou El Farrah]
Partis : C’est parti pour la Gauche verte !
, ''Le Soir (Morocco)'', May 7, 2010
See also
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Berberism
References
External links
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