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Polling stations have opened in Morocco's parliamentary election amid concerns the vote may be marred by low turnout with a pro-reform movement calling for a boycott.
The polls on Friday are the first under a new constitution proposed by King Mohammed VI and approved in a July 1 referendum amid popular uprisings in nearby countries.
Voting stations will close at 7pm (19:00 GMT) with the first provisional official results expected several hours later. Final results will be announced on Saturday.
Opinion polls are not allowed in the North African country but observers said the Islamist opposition Justice and Development Party is likely to win the largest number of seats.
The party's main rival is the Coalition for Democracy, a loose eight-party pro-monarchy bloc that includes Finance Minister Salaheddine Mezouar's National Rally of Independents party.

Boycott call

Overall 31 parties are vying for the 395 seats in the lower house of parliament, 70 more than during the last election in 2007.
The new seats are reserved for women and younger deputies in a bid to give the assembly, in the past dominated by high-ranking public figures, a more modern look.
The amended constitution gives more powers to parliament and the prime minister, who now must be appointed by the king from the party that wins the most assembly seats.
Some voters in the nation of 35 million people said they did not plan to cast their ballots because they had no faith that legislators would work to improve their lives.
The pro-reform February 20 Movement, which was responsible for the protests staged just before the king announced his plans to reform the constitution, has called for a boycott of the election.
It argues the constitutional reforms do not go far enough and that the elections will only give credibility to an undemocratic government.

Power transfer

More than 1,000 young people who have degrees but are unemployed staged a demonstration in Rabat on Thursday, demanding jobs and joining the calls to boycott the vote.
With authorities concerned about voter turnout, Omar Bendourou, a constitutional law professor at Rabat's Mohamed V University, said they would "do all they can" to ensure turnout is higher than the 37 per cent recorded in the last elections.
Bendourou said "a strong turnout in the 2011 elections would give credibility to the constitutional reform adopted in July".
"And it would give them some credibility, a favourable image abroad of how the kingdom responded to protests," he added.
While the constitutional reform transferred some of the king's powers to parliament and the prime minister, the monarch remains the head of state and the military and still appoints ambassadors and diplomats.
Source: Agencies