Le pouvoir est-il enfin dans les mains des villes ?

Éléments d’analyse spatiale des résultats des élections législatives marocaines du 25 novembre 2011.

Following the 20th February movement and the vote of a new constitution on the 1st July 2011 in Morocco, parliamentary elections were held on 25th November 2011. Cartograms of electoral results show that the Moroccan political space is driven by two different spatial dynamics. On the one hand, in rural areas and sparsely populated provinces, we find the persistence of a traditional political space marked by the mobilization of the electorate around local figures acting as “députés de services”. [...]