According to preliminary results only 37 percent of the 15 million voters in Morocco participated in the elections for a new parliament on Sunday. It seems that Morocco's conservative Istiqlal (Independence) party, already a member of the governing coalition, won most of the seats in the parliament, although claims exists that the some of the vote were obtained by fraud. In general international experts and monitors agree that the campaign and the poll itself was transparent and fair.

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