{{Short description|Political party in Morocco}} {{Distinguish|Democratic Independent Party}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{one source|date=May 2021}} The '''Democratic Independence Party''' ({{Langx|ar|حزب الشورى والاستقلال}}; {{langx|fr|Parti Démocratique et de l'Indépendance}}), also called the Democratic Party for Independence, is a political party in Morocco.
==History and profile== The Democratic Independence Party was established in 1946 by Mohamed Belhassan Wazzani.<ref>{{cite web|title=Organizations|date=18 April 2013|url=http://www.maroc.ma/en/content/organisations|publisher=Maroc|accessdate=10 October 2014|archive-date=4 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204164719/https://www.maroc.ma/en/content/organisations|url-status=dead}}</ref> It was a splinter group from Istiqlal Party.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Clark |first=Janine A. |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Local_Politics_in_Jordan_and_Morocco/nUpBDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=istiqlal%20king%20divisions%20left%20right&pg=RA1-PA2000&printsec=frontcover |title=Local Politics in Jordan and Morocco: Strategies of Centralization and Decentralization |date=2018-04-03 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-54501-3 |language=en}}</ref>
The party lost its last two seats at the 2007 elections.
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