Policy brief on social media and Morocco’s elections out now!

The Moroccan elections of September 2021 were unusual for various reasons. As electoral campaigning took place under pandemic circumstances, social media played a role previously unseen and contributed significantly to the unexpected victory of the National Rally of Independents (RNI), a liberal party, against the Justice and Development Party (PJD), an Islamist party.

Read more about it in the GIGA policy brief collaboratively written by Hayat Douhan, Eleonora Landucci & Lena Richter.