The Party of Progress and Socialism (PPS) has put MAD 575 billion in additional financing behind its election program, promising one million jobs for young people, a 15% increase in the minimum wage and an overhaul of public services if it takes office after the September 23 vote.
Party secretary general Nabil Benabdellah unveiled the 2026-2031 program in Rabat on Wednesday, with jobs, taxation, education, healthcare and industrial development among its main planks.
The party says the MAD 575 billion would be raised from a range of additional revenue sources.
Among its headline pledges is the creation of one million jobs for young people, alongside 100,000 jobs in the digital sector.
PPS is separately targeting 500,000 industrial jobs and wants industry’s share of the economy to rise from 15% to 20%.
The minimum wage would be raised by 15% in two stages.
The party is also promising an allowance of MAD 1,000 for every schoolchild and an increase in public aid to MAD 1,000.
Public investment bank, tax reform
Benabdellah said PPS would seek to end economic rent, overhaul taxation and establish a public investment bank to support entrepreneurship.
The party also wants to review the Green Morocco Plan, expand the digital economy and revisit some free-trade agreements which it says have not delivered sufficient benefits.
Housing and water also feature among its priorities.
Education and healthcare take a prominent place in the program, with PPS promising reforms to both public systems.
Benabdellah said the party wanted a development model “centered on people,” with better public services used to address social and territorial disparities.
In sport, PPS is targeting one million memberships in sports federations and wants to establish a training institute aimed in particular at young people who have lost confidence in public services.
PPS takes aim at outgoing government
The program also carries the opposition party’s criticism of the outgoing majority into the election campaign.
Benabdellah accused the government of perpetuating social and economic failures and criticized what he described as the persistence of economic rent and conflicts of interest.
PPS had repeatedly raised conflict-of-interest allegations during the outgoing legislature, including over the award of the Casablanca desalination plant project.
It also twice sought, unsuccessfully, a parliamentary commission of inquiry into the livestock import controversy known as the “Frakchiyas” affair.
Democracy and individual freedoms also feature in the program, alongside gender equality, Amazigh culture and the rights of young people and Moroccans living abroad.
