Tayyar.
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Abdelilah Benkirane

عبد الإله بنكيران
Party leader In opposition Unverified

Secretary-General of the Justice and Development Party (PJD); Prime Minister of Morocco 2011-2017. Brotherhood-affiliated figure in the post-Arab-Spring political landscape.

Country
Morocco
Party
Justice and Development Party
Role
Party leader

Inherited position

Until Abdelilah Benkirane is scored from their own documents, this page shows their party's compass position. Where individuals visibly diverge from the party line, the gap is noted in the description above; quantifying it is what per-individual document scoring will add.

In Morocco (via Justice and Development Party)
-10 -10 -5 -5 5 5 10 10 Libertarian · Statist Libertarian · Market Authority · Statist Authority · Market 1 parties 2 parties 2 parties secular-liberal centroid · 2 parties ← Statist Market → Libertarian ↑ ↓ Authority Social ↕ Economic ↔ Socialist Union of Popular Forces (MA) · Economic -4.0, Social +4.0 MA Socialist Union of Popular Forces Authenticity and Modernity Party (MA) · in government · Economic +5.0, Social +4.0 MA Authenticity and Modernity Party Istiqlal Party (MA) · in government · Economic +2.0, Social -4.0 MA Istiqlal Party Justice and Development Party (MA) · Economic +3.0, Social -6.0 MA Justice and Development Party National Rally of Independents (MA) · in government · Economic +8.0, Social +3.0 MA National Rally of Independents
Justice and Development Party's spider profile
Economic → Market Social → Libertarian State & religion → Secular state Liberal democracy → Strong commitment West alignment → Pro-Western Regional stance → Stability/normalization Palestinian question → Pro-Palestinian rights Civil liberties → Expand Regime stance → pro-regime Pan-Arab vs particularist → pan-Arab Centralism vs federalism → federalist Traditionalism vs modernization → modernizing Gender equality → Gender equality Iran posture → Pro-Iran / aligned Press freedom → Free press
Justice and Development Party

Briefs about Justice and Development Party

Hand-written political-science mini-papers comparing Justice and Development Party to other parties. 2 briefs on file.

Source documents

Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default 
Gara, T. (2026). Abdelilah Benkirane [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/abdelilah-benkirane
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals 
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Abdelilah Benkirane." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/abdelilah-benkirane.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers 
@misc{tayyar-abdelilah-benkirane,
  title     = {{Abdelilah Benkirane}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/abdelilah-benkirane},
  urldate   = {2026-08-06},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint 
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint 
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-08-06},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.