With only hours left to woo voters, the PAM brought its campaign to Hay Hassani on Tuesday for one last push before Wednesday’s ballot — and Fouzi Lekjaa had a simple ask for the crowd: turn up and vote.
“Your vote tomorrow matters,” the PAM political bureau member told party supporters in Casablanca.
The appeal came with a bigger argument about what should happen once the ballots are counted. Lekjaa said the coming five years should break with a brand of politics that stops at promises and put delivery to the test instead.
“You are the ones who will decide the destiny of Morocco and Moroccans,” he told the gathering, casting Wednesday’s vote as a choice over who gets to run public affairs for the next five years.
For the PAM, he made no bones about what he wanted voters to do. “If you want the program that we will implement with sincerity and work for Morocco and Moroccans, vote massively,” he said.
Lekjaa has spent the campaign taking that program from town to town, putting figures on some promises and deadlines on others. At Hay Hassani, on the last day of canvassing, he returned instead to the bargain he wants voters to make with politicians.
Promises alone, he argued, have had their day.
He called for “a break with the political actor who merely makes promises,” saying politics should now be about “achievement and implementation” when dealing with social problems, the economy and the concerns of young people.
“I think tomorrow will mark a turning point in Morocco’s political journey,” he said.
The clock he put on that change runs for five years.
By 2031, Lekjaa argued, the country should have dealt with what he called the “fundamentals of development,” allowing the political debate after that to move on to “a new generation of demands,” including cultural ones.
His pitch was that those basics should no longer be hanging over another election five years from now.
The destination, in his telling, is a Morocco able to consolidate its standing as an “emerging country.” But before any of that comes the ballot box.
With the campaign due to close at midnight, Lekjaa ended the PAM’s Hay Hassani stop where he had begun it—asking voters to put their confidence in the party’s candidates when polls open on Wednesday.
