18/04/2008
The constitutions of the Amazigh Democratic Party (PDAM) and the Umma Party are null and void, the administrative court in Rabat announced on Thursday (April 17th). PDAM was considered illegal based on a law stating that a party cannot be based on religious, ethnic or linguistic grounds. The court said the Islamist Umma party was banned because it failed to file administrative procedures for its constitution. One of Umma's founders, Mohamed El Merouani, is a defendant in the Beliraj terror cell case.