Presentation of our Research Paper about the rise of Islamic Parties after the Arab Spring. This paper was for our AUI SSK 1212 course during Spring '12

1. Arab Spring Towards Islamic
Governance
 Soukaina Brangui
 Mohamed Aafer
 Med Amine Almechatt
 Sultan Bel Fekih
 Wassim Sayerh

2. Introduction
 The Arab Spring as a favorable condition
for the rise of the Islamic movement and
its electoral success.
 The social, economic, and democratic
issues faced by the Arab countries which
were considered as main reasons for the
Arab Spring.

3. Outline of the presentation
 Oppression of the Islamic Parties by the
Old Regime
 The failure of the previous parties
 The success of the Islamic parties
 The Islamic Political Rise in Morocco

4. Oppression of the Islamic
Parties by the Old Regime
 Islamic Parties: Historial opposition
leaders
 The Use of Media by the Old Regime
 All Types Of Political Activities Monitored by the
Old Regime

5. The failure of the previous
parties:
• The old regimes
used despotism and
secularism that led to
their failure
• Leaders of these parties
as figure of dictatorship, using succession and nepotism
• The party controlled the local Medias

6. The success of the Islamic
parties:
• Long-established parties and charismatic leaders
• Their role in the opposition and the provided social
services
• An ability to mobilize and organize the different
resources needed

7. The Islamic Political
Rise in Morocco
• Islamic parties not being part of the government until 2011 helped them to be
elected.
• The PJD propositions of some changes in the new constitution encourage
people to elect them.
• The PJD is incapacity to answer people’s request for changes since the
power is in the monarchy’s hands.
• The 20th February movement lack of commitment aborted the opportunity
for a concrete political change.
• The new constitution and elections did not prevent Morocco from going up
in the ranking of the Economist Intelligent Unit’s of Democracy 2011.

8. Conclusion
 Features of old parties
 Old parties oppression
 The success of the Islamic parties
 The Moroccan case.