The Popular Movement (Arabic: الحركة الشعبية; French: Mouvement populaire) is a royalist and traditionalist rural-focused political party in Morocco.
The Popular Movement was founded in 1957 by the Berber tribal chief Mahjoubi Aherdane with help from Abdelkrim al-Khatib who founded later a splinter party (Mouvement populaire démocratique et constitutionnel) that became the Justice and Development Party.
[6][7] The party is a full member of Liberal International, which it joined at the latter's Dakar Congress in 2003.
[8] In the parliamentary election held on 27 September 2002, the party won 27 out of the total 325 seats.
It improved its standing in the parliamentary election held on 7 September 2007, winning 41 out of 325 seats.