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Another Resignation Shakes Morocco’s National Rally of Independents Before the Election

From Télégraphe · () Arabic

Translated from Arabic and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Former parliamentarian Abd al-Rahim Waslam resigned from Morocco’s National Rally of Independents without disclosing his next political destination.
  • He said in a resignation letter to party leader Mohamed Choukri that the decision stemmed from purely personal reasons.
  • Waslam previously won a Rabat constituency seat for the party, but Morocco’s Constitutional Court stripped him of it in 2024 before it went to Saïd Benmbarak in a by-election.

Another resignation has unsettled Morocco’s National Rally of Independents just days before the election. Abd al-Rahim Waslam, a former parliamentarian, has ended his work within the party’s structures without saying where he may go next.

In a resignation letter addressed to party president Mohamed Choukri, Waslam said his decision was driven by “purely personal” reasons. The letter’s signature was approved on Saturday, September 5, 2026.

His departure carries added political weight because of the administrative and political responsibilities he previously held in Rabat’s party scene. Waslam won a parliamentary seat for the National Rally of Independents in the Rabat-Ocean constituency.

Morocco’s Constitutional Court stripped him of that seat in 2024. A by-election later awarded it to his party colleague Saïd Benmbarak.

Purely personal reasons.

· Abd al-Rahim WaslamHe gave this reason in his resignation letter to the party leader.
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Originally published by Télégraphe in Arabic. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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