Beyond the narrative which praises “ the Moroccan exception ” , an extensive contentious movement has developed throughout the country.
Far from being the product of a domino effect, the February 20 Movement stems notably from a pro- cess of building assumptions of similarity, from the reactivation of more or less abeyant structures. A wide coalition has developed within a field of both alliance and opposition, at the intersection of formal political sphere and contentious politics, regardless of cleavages between leftist networks and Islamists. On a variety of scales involving the local, national, regional and international levels, an array of actions, interactions and events have contributed as much to the coalition taking roots as to the process of its erosion.