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.
