(CNN) -- Morocco's king asked the head of a moderate Islamist party to form a government Tuesday, state media said, after the party claimed victory in the country's first parliamentary elections since constitutional reforms this summer. The Islamist Justice and Development Party, or PJD, is expected to form a coalition government after it won 107 of the 395 seats contested in Friday's vote. King Mohammed VI appointed Abdelilah Benkirane, the party's secretary-general, as head of the new government Tuesday and asked him to form a Cabinet, the official news agency MAP reported. Benkirane, a former managing director of three newspapers and a father of six, was elected secretary-general of the PJD in 2008, MAP says.
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The Justice and Development Party won 107 of 395 seats in Friday's election
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The head of the moderate Islamist party has been asked to form a Cabinet
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Abdelilah Benkirane has been the PJD's secretary-general since 2008
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The election results indicates public unhappiness with the governing elite, an analyst says
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