Morocco Party leader
Abdelilah Benkirane
عبد الإله بنكيرانSecretary-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
- 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.
Briefs about Justice and Development Party
Hand-written political-science mini-papers comparing Justice and Development Party to other parties. 2 briefs on file.
- Justice and Development Party vs. Ennahda TN Maghreb Islamist electoralism. Tunisia's Ennahda against Morocco's PJD. Same Brotherhood-influenced tradition, very different state structures.
- Justice and Development Party vs. National Rally of Independents MA Morocco's post-2011 settlement. PJD's Islamist-electoral project against RNI's liberal-monarchist business establishment — both inside the makhzen, on different sides of it.
Source documents
Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →
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Interview Arabic 2014-10-27 Abdelilah Benkirane (PJD) — interview, “I have not come to change religious beliefs but to solve problems” (Asharq al-Awsat), 27 October 2014 (English translation of Arabic)
When I was appointed as prime minister by His Majesty King Mohammed VI of Morocco, I felt that I was an official responsible for running the public affairs of all Moroccans rather than a prophet with a special message.…
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 June 22, 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 June 22, 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 = {2026-06-22},
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 June 22, 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 = {2026-06-22},
note = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
} First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.